Are you stupid or somethin? What is it with you “animal jumpers” and apocalyptic viruses? That’s your tax dollars making those modifications. Who’s got the better apocalyptic bull$Hite narrative? You virus jumpers or the climate change gang?
You would have to ask France’s Ministry of Health folks, and India’s, who also immediately chased vax. They all, globally, knew what the body count was going to be.
One would think France also funds research of this sort. They have always been ahead in viral response immunity investigations.
American exceptionalism attitudes cause these mistakes.