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>NIH funded gain-of-function research into coronaviruses in Wuhan

Even this assertion is heavily, heavily disputed:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210706065130/https://www.washi...

Disputed by the person who approved the funding and has a major conflict of interest? The research clearly qualifies as gain-of-function, as natural viruses' functions were modified.

>Richard Ebright, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University and a critic of gain-of-function research, told the Washington Post that the EcoHealth/Wuhan lab research “was — unequivocally — gain-of-function research.” He said it “met the definition for gain-of-function research of concern under the 2014 Pause.”.

From the article text of its conclusion:

"the EcoHealth funding was not related to the experiments, but the collection of samples."

Pretty cut and dry?

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