Name: 美國資助中國的冠狀病毒研究（US Funded China’s Coronavirus Research）
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That may have led to the coronavirus pandemic

Welcome to China Uncensored, I'm Chris Chappell.

Well, I don't often say this, but Chinese state-run media is right.

For over a year, they've been trying to pin the blame for the coronavirus pandemic

And it turns out, they could be right—at least in this one sense.

I'm sure by now you've heard of the Wuhan lab leak theory.

The idea is, the coronavirus, or what I call the CCP Virus, leaked from the Wuhan Institute

A number of people outside of polite society—including me—have been talking about this theory for

But it's now become credible in mainstream media.

And it turns out, the US was at least partially funding experiments in the lab the coronavirus

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the NIAID, which is part of the

National Institutes of Health, the NIH, was giving research grants that were used by the

Wuhan Institute of Virology to study bat coronaviruses.

Some of that funding was also used to create coronaviruses that were more contagious to

Virologists say it helps them study diseases, to prevent future outbreaks.

But so far, it has not prevented future outbreaks.

Also, the Wuhan Institute of Virology had known safety problems as recently as 2018.

We did a full episode on the lab leak theory earlier this week so you should definitely

Dr. Fauci is the director of the NIAID, which gave the grants to the non-profit EcoHealth

Alliance, which worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

But Dr. Fauci, as you may remember, repeatedly dismissed the idea the coronavirus came from

He especially shut down the idea that the virus was artificially manipulated.

Well, now that all this is coming out, he's somewhat changed his tune.

And after initially denying funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,

Fauci is now defending cooperation with the Chinese lab.

He said it would have been a “dereliction of duty” NOT to work with China on coronavirus

Fauci now admits there was modest funding of the Wuhan lab, but not for gain of function

Again, gain of function means taking an existing virus and making it more contagious or deadly.

So Fauci says they were NOT funding this kind of research in China.

However, the description of some of the research grants given to the Wuhan lab say researchers

would use techniques like “reverse genetics”...

These are techniques used for gain of function research.

So I'm not entirely sure what Dr. Fauci means by the word ”not”.

And here's a fun fact: The US government had banned funding this kind of research in

But there were special exemptions—if the directors of the NIH and NIAID, for example

The NIH ended up lifting the ban on gain-of-function research in 2017.

And yet Dr. Fauci, as the man in charge of the US coronavirus response, never once questioned

if a Chinese lab working on making coronaviruses more contagious could have been the origin

The coronavirus research being done at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was being done

by Dr. Shi Zhengli She's been called China's Bat Woman for her work on bat coronaviruses.

She had collaborated with a microbiologist at the University of North Carolina.

So...maybe...from now on, the US should reconsider funding research and training doctors for

an authoritarian regime with a history of poor quality standards and massive coverups.

This week however, the Senate passed an Amendment from Senator Rand Paul banning gain of function

It's not yet clear if that will become law.

What is clear now is that, a couple months ago, the Biden Administration had shut down

an investigation into the Covid Lab leak theory.

The lab leak theory is really having a moment this week.

It also came out this week the Biden Administration shut down a Trump era investigation into the

CNN quoted anonymous sources that said the project was shut down because “questions

were raised about the legitimacy of the findings.”

And CNN also cited other anonymous sources who defended the quality of the work.

And then the State Department denied that the project had been shut down at all because

So we don't really know what happened there.

What we do know is now the lab leak theory is suddenly the popular kid at school.

And President Biden has asked the US intelligence community “to redouble their efforts to

collect and analyze information that could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion”

Speaking of US intelligence, the Senate has just unanimously passed a bill requiring the

Director of National Intelligence to declassify "any and all information relating to potential

links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of the coronavirus disease."

But the media is having a really difficult time dealing with this story.

For months, they dismissed the coronavirus lab leak theory.

It was a foolish conspiracy theory from Trump.

Here's a tweet from the New York Times from this February.

The Wuhan lab has been the focus of unfounded conspiracy theories promoted by the Trump

administration about the pandemic's origins.

( Well, now they have to do some major backpedaling.

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