At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Uyghur American Association (UAA) began raising awareness of the risks of virus spread among the extremely vulnerable populations of Uyghurs and others in concentration camps throughout East Turkistan (Xinjiang). The UAA requested meetings with World Health Organization (WHO) and US government representatives to discuss these urgent matters. On Feb 7th 2020, Kuzzat Altay, President of the UAA, along with two Uyghur medical scientists, Dr. Maysem Mutalipova, Director of the Human Stem Cell lab at MIT’s Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Sciences, and Dr. Mehmet Emin, Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University Medical Center, met with White House officials in the morning and State Department officials in the afternoon to discuss the high risk of virus spread in concentration and forced labor camps in Uyghur region, and its potential catastrophic outcome. During the meeting, the importance of US government action to close the concentration camps was emphasized. The extremely unsanitary and crowded conditions in the camps presents a perfect atmosphere for virus spread.