OMG...HE PAID FOR THE VIRUS BYWAY OF GAIN OF FUNCTION.GEESH..WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN....or are you mrs. Fauci?
Fauci did not invent gain of function research. The UK has been engaged in the activity at Imperial College. The US at the Univ of Wisconsin and UNC have been doing GoF research for over 20 years. There are many places in India doing this research. Not to mention Singapore. They don’t need NIH money. It’s not that money intensive an activity.
You guys need to get calibrated on all this. It did not require special super duper US funding for Covid to get generated. Cooking viruses is essentially trivial. There are Bionerds all over the world who treat it as the microbiology equivalent of writing iPhone apps. Creating viruses can be done on a kitchen table. China likely had this virus escape from a lab, but the lab didn’t have to be a super duper, super secure, super black-to-the-outside-world facility.
It could be done on a kitchen table.