On January 9, 2017, eleven days before Obama left office and 3 days before [[James Comey]] and [[Sally Yates]] reauthorized a [[FISA]] warrant to spy on the incoming [[Trump administration]] for another 90 days, the Obama White House lifted a ban on funding gain-of-function research and weaponization of the bat [[coronavirus]] at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, making the virus transmissible to humans <ref>https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2017/01/09/recommended-policy-guidance-potential-pandemic-pathogen-care-and-oversight</ref><ref>https://www.phe.gov/s3/dualuse/documents/p3co-finalguidancestatement.pdf</ref> Two days later | On January 9, 2017, eleven days before Obama left office and 3 days before [[James Comey]] and [[Sally Yates]] reauthorized a [[FISA]] warrant to spy on the incoming [[Trump administration]] for another 90 days, the Obama White House lifted a ban on funding gain-of-function research and weaponization of the bat [[coronavirus]] at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, making the virus transmissible to humans <ref>https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2017/01/09/recommended-policy-guidance-potential-pandemic-pathogen-care-and-oversight</ref><ref>https://www.phe.gov/s3/dualuse/documents/p3co-finalguidancestatement.pdf</ref> Two days later |