On Friday night, President Joe Biden’s Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released to Congress a 10-page summary of U.S. intelligence on the potential links between China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and the COVID-19 pandemic. The summary claims there is no direct evidence that Covid-19 came from the laboratory.

But the summary did not reveal the names of the WIV scientists who fell ill in the fall of 2019, as the law, Public Act 118-2, requires. And multiple sources within the US government told both Public and The Wall Street Journal that the names of the researchers who fell ill were Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu, and that they were the first three people to contract COVID-19.

The “Director of National Intelligence shall,” reads the Act, “declassify any and all information…including… researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology who fell ill in autumn 2019, including for any such researcher.. (i) the researcher’s name; (ii) the researcher’s symptoms” and other information.

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