This was spotted by Tom Czerniawski in the post to twitter by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus of more discovered gmail emails by David Morens, an advisor to Dr. Anthony Fauci, from the April 2020 time period. This is regarding research being done at Wuhan and funded by NIAID.
There is no mention of anything even resembling gain of function in that email or the linked grant information. There is mention of extremely basic observational study of naturally occurring coronaviruses in Chinese bat populations.
You know, the kind of research that is extremely important and utterly sensible in the real world.
They’ve published a lot on basic overview study of zoonotic infectious virus prevalence and transmission mechanisms.
Of course if you’re at all like that X/Twitter user you seem to be looking for a smoking gun to confirm your, very likely unfounded, pre-existing beliefs. The grant funded exactly and precisely what it described, observational investigation into bat coronaviruses and the risks and mechanism of transmission to humans.
SARS-CoV2 is and was exactly such a zoonotic transmission event… the only real question is why did humanity react so badly to an inevitable event?
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 26.0 ms ] threadSupposedly for research from 2014 to 2019. During much of this time period gain of function was supposed to be prohibited.
[0]: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_R01AI110964_7529
You know, the kind of research that is extremely important and utterly sensible in the real world.
It would be nice if that database actually had links to any of the research papers that resulted.
They’ve published a lot on basic overview study of zoonotic infectious virus prevalence and transmission mechanisms.
Of course if you’re at all like that X/Twitter user you seem to be looking for a smoking gun to confirm your, very likely unfounded, pre-existing beliefs. The grant funded exactly and precisely what it described, observational investigation into bat coronaviruses and the risks and mechanism of transmission to humans.
SARS-CoV2 is and was exactly such a zoonotic transmission event… the only real question is why did humanity react so badly to an inevitable event?