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were withholding COVID-19 data,<ref>Isabel van Brugen, "[https://www.theepochtimes.com/fauci-agency-knew-chinese-authorities-were-withholding-covid-19-data-in-january-2020-documents-show_4313524.html Fauci Agency Knew Chinese Authorities Were Withholding COVID-19 Data in January 2020, Documents Show]", ''Epoch Fimes'', 2 March 2022.</ref>

were withholding COVID-19 data,<ref>Isabel van Brugen, "[https://www.theepochtimes.com/fauci-agency-knew-chinese-authorities-were-withholding-covid-19-data-in-january-2020-documents-show_4313524.html Fauci Agency Knew Chinese Authorities Were Withholding COVID-19 Data in January 2020, Documents Show]", ''Epoch Fimes'', 2 March 2022.</ref>

In fact, Fauci was told in a secret teleconference on February 1, 2020, that the COVID-19 virus very likely leaked from a laboratory in China. After the teleconference, however, Fauci and his associates began pushing an alternate narrative, instead claiming the virus was of natural origin, and the researchers who informed him and others of the likely lab leak also changed their narrative to align with Fauci, despite their own documented statements saying otherwise.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/fauci-knew-about-virus-lab-origin-from-secret-teleconference-jeff-carlson-and-hans-mahncke_4248579.html</ref>

In fact, Fauci was told in a secret teleconference on February 1, 2020, that the COVID-19 virus very likely leaked from a laboratory in China. After the teleconference, however, Fauci and his associates began pushing an alternate [[narrative]], instead claiming the virus was of natural origin, and the researchers who informed him and others of the likely lab leak also changed their narrative to align with Fauci, despite their own documented statements saying otherwise.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/fauci-knew-about-virus-lab-origin-from-secret-teleconference-jeff-carlson-and-hans-mahncke_4248579.html</ref>

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: