What we don't know could have killed us. The original research at Wuhan was partly funded by our own National Institute of Health at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. (AKA Anthony Fauci, M.D.)
"U.S. Right to Know last week filed three new Freedom of Information Act lawsuits against federal agencies as part of an ongoing effort to uncover what is known about the origins of COVID-19, leaks or mishaps at biosafety labs, and the risks of gain-of-function research.
U.S. Right to Know (USRTK) last week filed three new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits against federal agencies as part of an ongoing effort to uncover what is known about the origins of COVID-19, leaks or mishaps at biosafety labs and the risks of gain-of-function research.
The nonprofit investigative public health group has filed more than 90 state, federal, and international public records requests since July 2020, seeking information related to the origins of SARS-CoV-2.
The group filed the three new lawsuits after federal agencies failed to respond to several FOIA requests, instead withholding documents and information that potentially shed light on the origins of COVID-19 and related issues."
Is it conceivable that the original FOIA requests were lost in a dust bin or sat in a stack of files on a clerk's desk? Perhaps the agency has to choose which requests to answer, and the pandemic itself caused staffing shortages. Lawsuits usually get a response, or a summary judgment and default.
"HHS, DARPA, National Library of Medicine targets of latest lawsuits
USRTK filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) after they ignored USRTK’s request, submitted in June, for information about Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) inquiries made before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Researchers commonly use BLAST to compare potentially new genetic sequences to a database of known sequences. The lawsuit seeks to uncover whether anyone was using BLAST to align a nucleic acid or amino acid sequence identical to parts of the SARS-CoV-2 genome before the pandemic."
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