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"One obvious demand would have been access to the WIV’s database of some 22,000 virus samples and sequences, which had been taken offline. At an event convened by a London organization on March 10, Daszak was asked whether the group had made such a request. He said there was no need: Shi Zhengli had stated that the WIV took down the database due to hacking attempts during the pandemic. “Absolutely reasonable,” Daszak said. “And we did not ask to see the data…. As you know, a lot of this work has been conducted with EcoHealth Alliance…. We do basically know what’s in those databases. There is no evidence of viruses closer to SARS-CoV-2 than RaTG13 in those databases, simple as that.”"

What did she mean when she said that the database is offline? It's not like the data would be gone if the service is not running?

>>durovo+(OP)
According to DRASTIC it's a 61.5 MB mysql database.

Oddly, it went offline 12 September 2019 shortly _before_ the pandemic was announced in December 2019.

Ref: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gilles-Demaneuf/publica...

Not really clear why it hasn't been released, it would be technically trivial and save a lot of speculation.

There is a bit of a pattern of DRASTIC researchers finding interesting tidbits in various science portals, followed by those portals going offline or being restricted.

>>xyzzy1+j6
The lesson to take from this is to always dump the database and put it on scihub/torrent before going public.

>>xyzzy1+j6
Throughout the whole thing the Chinese have been like no data for you which makes you wonder if they have something to hide.