The Covid-19 virus was mapped by Chinese researchers in December 2019, at least two weeks before Beijing made the virus public, according to US Congressional probe records that The Wall Street Journal was able to view. According to the documents, on December 28, 2019, Chinese researchers uploaded almost the whole SARS-CoV-2 virus sequence to the US government's database. But it wasn't until January 11, 2020, that Chinese officials gave the World Health Organization (WHO) access to the data.
The recent discovery raises concerns about China's amount of access to the deadly virus and the degree to which the outbreak, which resulted in millions of deaths in the following months, could have been contained had it been known about two weeks earlier. A spokeswoman for the Chinese embassy defended the administrative action taken by the government, telling the US daily that the Covid reaction plans were "science-based, effective, and consistent with China's national realities." According to the official, "China has kept improving our Covid response based on science to make it more targeted."
The Covid sequence was released by Chinese scientist Dr. Lili Ren in 2019, however she never replied to the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) request for additional technical information. The information was eventually taken down from the official database and never made public. The NIH then released a new Covid virus that it had obtained from an alternate source on January 12, 2020. In the meantime, a recent study found that Chinese researchers are working with a virus known as GX_P2V, which is 100% capable of killing mice, the genetic makeup of which is comparable to that of humans. Fascinatingly, the new virus shared traits with SARS-CoV-2.
In five days of infection, the mice at Beijing University of Chemical Technology lost a significant amount of weight, their eyes went white, and after eight days, they perished, according to a study published on bioRxiv. Scientists expressed their amazement at the high death rate in their writing. Upon further examination, they discovered that the mice's lungs, bones, tracheas, brains, and eyeballs had all been infected by the virus. Their brain infections were the main reason they died.
