National Institutes of Health (NIH) documents obtained by a nonprofit watchdog in a federal court suit reveal that the agency deleted CCP virus genetic sequencing information from the Wuhan Institute for Virology at the Chinese lab’s request. The Arlington, Virginia-based Empower Oversight Whistleblowers and Researchers (EO) obtained, as a result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and lawsuit, more than 230 pages of documents dating from 2020 that included emails, memoranda, and other correspondence among and between the lab and multiple NIH officials. The CCP virus, which causes COVID-19 and is also known as the novel coronavirus, was first detected in China in late 2019, before spreading worldwide. Since the first death from the virus in the United States was reported in January 2020, more than 1 million Americans, and in excess of 6 million globally have succumbed to the virus. Controversy has raged in the United States …