One week after the first reported outbreaks in China, scientists at the National Institute of Health in the United States informed the chief medical advisor to the [[president]], [[Dr. Anthony Fauci]],<ref>https://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/director</ref> that the SARS-CoV-2 [[genome]] sequence was "inconsistent with evolutionary theory."<ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.202100015</ref> This meant that it was likely man-made.<ref>https://usrtk.org/biohazards/origin-of-sars-cov-2-gain-of-function-readings/</ref> Three years earlier, on January 9, 2017, the [[Obama]] White House restored funding for [[gain-of-function]] research at the [[Wuhan Institute of Virology]] for research on the bat coronavirus.<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> Gain-of-function is to modify an animal virus so as to make it transmissible to humans.<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/06/05/trump-wanted-to-publicly-grill-fauci-on-wuhan-lab-funding/</ref> The funds were administered by Dr. Anthony Fauci,<ref>https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stacey-lennox/2021/05/13/dr-fauci-saying-the-nih-never-funded-gain-of-function-research-at-the-wuhan-lab-is-evasive-at-best-n1446170</ref> Fauci extended the funds,<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/17/infamous-wuhan-lab-authorized-to-receive-us-taxpayer-funding-nih-confirms/</ref> but did not obtain approval from a mandatory [[Department of Health and Human Services]] review board as required.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/news/hhs-board-never-approved-wuhan-institute-of-virology-research-grant/</ref> | One week after the first reported outbreaks in China, scientists at the National Institute of Health in the United States informed the chief medical advisor to the [[president]], [[Dr. Anthony Fauci]],<ref>https://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/director</ref> that the SARS-CoV-2 [[genome]] sequence was "inconsistent with evolutionary theory."<ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.202100015</ref> This meant that it was likely man-made.<ref>https://usrtk.org/biohazards/origin-of-sars-cov-2-gain-of-function-readings/</ref> Three years earlier, on January 9, 2017, the [[Obama]] White House restored funding for [[gain-of-function]] research at the [[Wuhan Institute of Virology]] for research on the bat coronavirus.<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> Gain-of-function is to modify an animal virus so as to make it transmissible to humans.<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/06/05/trump-wanted-to-publicly-grill-fauci-on-wuhan-lab-funding/</ref> The funds were administered by Dr. Anthony Fauci,<ref>https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stacey-lennox/2021/05/13/dr-fauci-saying-the-nih-never-funded-gain-of-function-research-at-the-wuhan-lab-is-evasive-at-best-n1446170</ref> Fauci extended the funds,<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/17/infamous-wuhan-lab-authorized-to-receive-us-taxpayer-funding-nih-confirms/</ref> but did not obtain approval from a mandatory [[Department of Health and Human Services]] review board as required.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/news/hhs-board-never-approved-wuhan-institute-of-virology-research-grant/</ref> |