As reported by Vanity Fair, on June 18, 2021, an evolutionary biologist named Jesse D. Bloom sent a draft of an unpublished scientific paper he’d written to Dr. Anthony Fauci for a heads-up. The preprint contained “sensitive revelations” about the NIH. Bloom’s investigation had revealed “that a number of early SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences mentioned in a published paper from China had somehow vanished without a trace”. “Piecing together clues, Bloom established that the NIH itself had deleted the sequences from its own archive at the request of researchers in Wuhan”
A zoom meeting was organised by Francis Collins for June 20, 2021 whom he invited Fauci, Kristian Andersen and Robert Garry to attend and Bloom invited Sergei Pond and Rasmus Nielsen, which the meeting turned out to be “extremely contentious” according to Bloom with “yelling”. Overall the response was said by Sergei to be “inappropriate for a scientific meeting.”
Kristian Andersen revealed that he was a “screener at the preprint server, which gave him access to papers that weren’t yet public” and could delete or edit the paper.