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A report shows the Biden administration failed to release findings suggesting service members may have contracted COVID-19 in 2019 in Wuhan.
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A previously undisclosed report reveals the Biden administration concealed December 2022 findings from the Department of Defense
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suggesting seven U.S. service members may have been infected with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China as early as October 2019
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The report from the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness says the military members became sick with COVID-19-like symptoms
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after returning to the U.S. from the World Military Games in Wuhan
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It says the seven people in question experienced symptoms from October 18, 2019 through January 21, 2020
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The report, however, notes these symptoms may have been from other respiratory illnesses
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and all service members were symptom-free in less than a week. The Washington Free Beacon, which first broke the story
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accuses the Biden administration of violating the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act
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mandating it make a report on the 2019 military games publicly available and says it contradicts the administration claims in 2021 there was no evidence U athletes contracted COVID at the event The Washington Free Beacon
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also alleges the report shows the virus may have leaked into the human population from a Chinese
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lab. The Trump administration recently released the report and uploaded it to the Department of
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defense website. The U.S. team reportedly flew to Washington after the Games, which became one of
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the first states to see a surge in COVID-19 cases. Other athletes at the Games, including an Italian
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fencer and French athlete, suspect they contracted COVID-19 at the Games. Republican Senator Joni
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Ernst of Iowa criticized the Biden administration for failing to release the report, telling the
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free beacon. Taxpayers deserve to know the truth about COVID-19 origins, but the Biden administration
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concealed this information from the American people for years. The Pentagon declined to comment
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on the report. For more on this story, you can download the Straight Arrow News app or visit us
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