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Sailingdiver's JournalBefore the Coronavirus Pandemic, Overlooked Clues From Chinese Scientists
Source: NY Times
Newly released documents indicate that a U.S. genetic database had received the sequence of the coronavirus two weeks before it was made public by others.
In late December 2019, eight pages of genetic code were sent to computers at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.
Unbeknown to American officials at the time, the genetic map that had landed on their doorstep contained critical clues about the virus that would soon touch off a pandemic.
The genetic code, submitted by Chinese scientists to a vast public repository of sequencing data run by the U.S. government, described a mysterious new virus that had infected a 65-year-old man weeks earlier in Wuhan. At the time the code was sent, Chinese officials had not yet warned of the unexplained pneumonia sickening patients in the central city of Wuhan.
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Bankman-Fried guilty
Source: NYT
SBF GUILTY ON ALL CHARGES
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/11/02/business/sam-bankman-fried-trial/87348270-f094-5341-8db9-fcf876c3e660?smid=url-share
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