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He very clearly was evading what he knew was the law!

"overwhelming evidence" that David Morens, a top adviser to
Dr. Anthony Fauci deleted records critical to uncovering the
origins of COVID-19.

from https://thehill.com/homenews/4681213-did-nih-officials-hide-covid-19-records/

Did NIH officials hide COVID-19 records?
BY LIZ JASSIN - 05/23/24 10:57 AM ET

NIH adviser accused of COVID origins cover0up
David Morens said he used 'back channel' to evade transparency
Rep. Rich McCormick: 'We're close to getting to the bottom of this'

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(NewsNation) — The House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic
released a 35-page memo presenting what they say is overwhelming
evidence that David Morens, a top adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci at the
National Institutes of Health, deleted records critical to uncovering
the origins of COVID-19.

The memo claims Morens unlawfully deleted emails and used a “secret back channel” to evade transparency.

“(I) learned from our FOIA [sic] lady here how to make emails disappear
after I am FOIA’d (sic) but before the search starts,” Morens wrote in a Feb. 24, 2021, email, which was obtained by The New York Post. “Plus I deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to gmail (sic).”

Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., and former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield
joined NewsNation host Chris Cuomo on Wednesday night to discuss the
claims in the memo.

“What we’ve found is basically a cover-up of immense proportions where people were avoiding FOIA inquiries,” said McCormick, who was an
emergency room doctor during the thick of the pandemic. “There’s gonna
be hell to pay when we actually get to the bottom of this, and I think
we’re getting close.”

Redfield said on “CUOMO” that “The problem is it finally was admitted that there are many COVID viruses that this lab (in Wuhan) has that have
never seen the light of day, so we don’t know the inventory,”

Is COVID-19 still a ‘pandemic?’
On March 11, 2020, the director-general of the World Health Organization
told the world that COVID-19 “can be characterized as a pandemic.”

At the time, fewer than 4,500 people were thought to have died from the
virus, but it was spreading quickly, appearing in new cities and
countries every day.

Fast forward to 2024, and the virus has taken an estimated 7 million
lives. It’s still mutating and sparking new variants, sickening
thousands of people, and ultimately killing hundreds every day. But we
also have far more tools than we did in 2020. We have several effective vaccines and anti-viral treatments to help combat the disease.

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With all that in mind, is COVID-19 still considered a pandemic-level threat?

A WHO spokesperson told Nexstar “the word ‘pandemic’ is not binary, it’s
not on or off.” To make things even more complicated, there’s not one universal agreed-upon definition of a pandemic.

Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health says a pandemic begins when a disease is spreading exponentially and across international borders:
“This wide geographical reach is what makes pandemics lead to
large-scale social disruption, economic loss, and general hardship.”

On the other hand, a disease is endemic when it’s “consistently present
but limited to a particular region.”

With COVID-19, it’s been “consistently present” for years, but isn’t limited to any particular area or population. It still has “wide
geographical reach,” but case counts aren’t exploding out of control.

The WHO won’t make a ruling on when the pandemic is “over,” a spokesperson told Nexstar. However, they did declare an end to the
Public Health Emergency of International Concern in May 2023. Unlike the
term “pandemic,” a public health emergency is clearly defined under international health regulations.

While the WHO stopped short of determining whether COVID-19 still
constitutes a pandemic, the agency made it clear the virus “remains a
global health threat.”

Alix Martichoux and “The Hill” contributed to this report.

TAGS ANTHONY FAUCI CHRIS CUOMO COVID RICH MCCORMICK ROBERT REDFIELD
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