The National Institutes of Health repeatedly failed to comply with congressional requests for documents related to its involvement with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, instead forcing agency personnel to “shred notes and other documents” referencing the Chinese Communist Party-run lab and its work with the U.S. government during the [[Obama administration]]. Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform wrote a to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) commissar [[Xavier Becerra]] urging the release of the documents. The letter reveals that an NIH advisor was “forced by NIH to shred notes and other documents pertaining to the WIV grants as early as 2014.” An email from an individual, whose name has been redacted, to a committee staff member on November 5, 2021 revealed the following: | The National Institutes of Health repeatedly failed to comply with congressional requests for documents related to its involvement with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, instead forcing agency personnel to “shred notes and other documents” referencing the Chinese Communist Party-run lab and its work with the U.S. government during the [[Obama administration]]. Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform wrote a to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) commissar [[Xavier Becerra]] urging the release of the documents. The letter reveals that an NIH advisor was “forced by NIH to shred notes and other documents pertaining to the WIV grants as early as 2014.” An email from an individual, whose name has been redacted, to a committee staff member on November 5, 2021 revealed the following: |