Is your nose growing Pinocchio? The fact checkers would give you a pants on fire rating. Not even Fauci is trying to weasel out on "direct" funding. This is the lie he told ""has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology."
Here's more fun stuff (and there's going to be steady stream of it, the reporters are seeing if Fauci or NIH puts out a press release they can attack)-
Ebright said these sections of the documents show that NIH grants supported the construction of mutant SARS-related coronaviruses that involved blending different types together. The result was a lab-generated virus that could infect human cells, he said, adding that at least three of the lab-generated viruses "exhibited >10x to >100x higher viral loads in humanized mice."
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Newsweek contacted the NIH for comment from Fauci and received this statement: "NIH has never approved any research that would make a coronavirus more dangerous to humans.
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The NIH did not immediately respond to a request to confirm it denies funding GOF research in light of the newly released documents
Newly released grant proposals indicate the National Institutes of Health funded controversial gain of function research—appearing to contradict what Dr. Anthony Fauci told Congress earlier this year.
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