American lab says its contract with Wuhan Institute of Virology may have violated the law – U.S. Right to Know

A Texas lab said it assumes responsibility for entering into poorly drafted agreements with three Chinese maximum biocontainment labs that granted them broad authority to delete so-called secret files, including research data stored on U.S. servers.

The University of Texas Medical Branch acknowledged that data destruction provisions in its contracts with three Chinese labs including the Wuhan Institute of Virology may have violated Texas state law in a new statement to U.S. Right to Know. 

via usrtk.org

“Poorly drafted.”