A whistleblower group, sued the National Institutes of Health to get the agency to comply with its Freedom of Information Act request and release documents related to a request by Chinese researchers to remove genetic sequences of the virus from NIH-controlled databases. In July, Empower Oversight submitted a detailed FOIA request to NIH seeking records concerning the agency reportedly agreeing to the Chinese researchers’ request, Just the News reports . The group argued that genetic sequences of the virus are critical to understanding the origin of the pandemic. “NIH’s failure to safeguard such genetic sequence information is of utmost public…