If not, then these funds were free to be used for WuHuFlu development. And even if they restricted the use of funds - that would make funds usually used for that use to be freed up for use on WuHuFlu.
It doesn't really matter if you put it into the left or the right pant's pocket - the pants still has use of both.
Also, their parsing of words sounds like their money was funneled through an intermediary as Fauci’s was, hence “precisely zero times with THIS organization...”