Chinese scientists mapped out the genetic makeup of the pandemic-causing nearly a month before it was made public, raising questions about what those scientists knew and when they knew it.A committee obtained federal government documents showing that Dr Lili Ren, a scientist at the Beijing-based Institute of Pathogen Biology, sequenced the novel virus on December 28, which at the time the government was calling viral ‘of unknown cause’.It confirms suspicions that the Chinese were studying the virus before announcing it to the world - a delay experts say cost countless of lives.
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