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@botolo86 Found something else: The #HeritageFoundation is claiming that #EcoHealth funded #COVID19 research at the #WuhanInstituteOfVirology

https://www.heritage.org/public-health/commentary/why-are-feds-still-funding-ecohealth-alliance-when-its-covid-19-role

Turns out that as of this August, the #WuhanInstituteOfVirology is refusing to detail the nature of their #COVID19 research, triggering the #NIH to withdraw part of their grant with #EcoHealth:

https://thebulletin.org/2022/08/nih-to-terminate-ecohealth-alliance-grant-after-its-wuhan-partners-refuse-to-deliver-information-on-coronavirus-studies/

That article links back to the document retrieved via #FOIA request that I'd linked earlier, and insinuates that #EcoHealth performed gain of function research (or at least performed experiments that improved the virality of a #coronavirus) without notifying the #NIH.

So it could be the case that the #NIH did fund gain of function research, but was not aware of it.

Still have more reading to do though, I haven't read some of the sources I've pulled up and I haven't made any progress in the #WashingtonPost article yet (just wanted to verify its claim first before proceeding)