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Seems to be a very bold statement. It wouldn't surprise me if true. US has biolabs and is funding "research" all around world, as we learned in Ukraine.
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Seems to be a very bold statement. It wouldn't surprise me if true. US has biolabs and is funding "research" all around world, as we learned in Ukraine.
It's gotta be true, it's on you.boob! Why let truth get in the way of a good story...did any of you gullible I hate my country conspiracy theorists ever consider that China has been trying to blame the US from the beginning? Did you also know that Sars viruses have originated in China in the past? Get real, would ya?
In 2013, the American virologist Ralph Baric approached Zhengli Shi at a meeting. Baric was a top expert in coronaviruses, with hundreds of papers to his credit, and Shi, along with her team at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, had been discovering them by the fistful in bat caves. In one sample of bat guano, Shi had detected the genome of a new virus, called SHC014, that was one of the two closest relatives to the original SARS virus, but her team had not been able to culture it in the lab.
Baric had developed a way around that problem—a technique for “reverse genetics” in coronaviruses. Not only did it allow him to bring an actual virus to life from its genetic code, but he could mix and match parts of multiple viruses. He wanted to take the “spike” gene from SHC014 and move it into a genetic copy of the SARS virus he already had in his lab. The spike molecule is what lets a coronavirus open a cell and get inside it. The resulting chimera would demonstrate whether the spike of SHC014 would attach to human cells.
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While Baric’s study was in progress, the National Institutes of Health announced that it would temporarily halt funding for “gain of function” research
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In a potentially fateful decision, it funded work similar to Baric’s at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which soon used its own reverse-genetics technology to make numerous coronavirus chimeras.
Unnoticed by most, however, was a key difference that significantly shifted the risk calculation. The Chinese work was carried out at biosafety level 2 (BSL-2), a much lower tier than Baric’s BSL-3+.
In other words, we gave them the technology and the funding to do gain of function research in China to avoid the ban in the U.S.
Feel free to read the rest. This is an article from MIT... as is the one above.
Seems to be a very bold statement. It wouldn't surprise me if true. US has biolabs and is funding "research" all around world, as we learned in Ukraine.
Bolded the keyboard. It could've been circulating elsewhere long before and dismissed as the flu, or a common cold.
What is hilarious is that the right wingers on here accusing Gain of Function research activities fail to mention or fail to realize that the Trump administration lifted a moratorium in late 2017 that the Obama administration had enacted in 2014.
So if indeed COVID happened due to US GOF research...
It happened under Trump's watch and it happened due to Trump's policy decisions.
There is no doubt in my mind that had a Democrat been president under these circumstances that righties would have blamed them for COVID. Somehow Trump gets a pass. I suppose he wasn't in charge of NIH when he was Prez. Go figure.
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