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A scientist in Seattle found genetic data about the coronavirus that was stored on a National Institutes of Health archive and later deleted, according to The Washington Post.

Jesse Bloom, PhD, a computational biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, posted about his recovery of "deleted deep sequencing data" on the bioRxiv preprint server on Tuesday. The paper hasn't yet been peer-reviewed or published in a journal.

Bloom said the data "sheds more light on the early Wuhan SARS-CoV-2 epidemic," though the scientific significance of his report remains unclear. Scientists expressed both favorable and unfavorable opinions on Wednesday, as well as what the data could mean for the initial outbreak in China.

Head over to Medscape to read the full story.