Boy they not even trying to make the lies believable
The Chinese Researchers asked for it so they did it?
why would this information need to be deleted? If was going to be updated to a different database, you keep a copy until you don’t need it. You do not delete it 1st.
This support the theory that this was a US Government funded gain of function experiment that got out of control. The only reasonable explanation is the project left a digital foot print that needed to be covered up.
Or E., All the above...
Can you imagine being the supervisor this took place under,
unless he signed off on it.