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Originally Posted by SkBlogW
According to Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University, the documents contain critical information about the research done in Wuhan, including about the creation of novel viruses. “ The viruses they constructed were tested for their ability to infect mice that were engineered to display human type receptors on their cell,”
Details Emerge About Coronavirus Research at Chinese Lab
Wuhan lab documents show Fauci ‘untruthful’ about gain-of-function research
The documents also include a second grant titled “Understanding Risk of Zoonotic Virus Emergence in Emerging Infectious Disease Hotspots of Southeast Asia,” which was awarded in August last year.
Under the terms and conditions of that grant approval, there is a section noting that prior to “further altering the mutant viruses,” the NIAID needs to be given a “detailed description of the proposed alterations and supporting evidence for the anticipated phenotypics characteristics of each virus.”
Wuhan lab documents show Fauci 'untruthful' about research: critics
Controls on ‘gain of function’ experiments with supercharged pathogens have been
undercut despite concerns about lab leaks
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...n-the-shadows/
https://archive.is/qGhfY#selection-193.0-197.41 |
Just as the U.S. and other countries spends a lot of money identifying the strains of the flu most likely to make people sick here in the next few months so this year’s flu vaccine can be made, so they also pay for studies of possible strains of other or similar organisms that might be a problem. Such as the Ebola virus. Forewarned is forearmed. That research can’t be done without gathering the animals and running the tests. One hope is that if there is ever a breakout of some new disease in humans, or chickens, or whatever, the organism will have already been identified, which helps virologists. That research is best done in countries where the animals live. It’s hard to gather hundreds of bats in China and bring them here for testing, and it is also much more expensive than working with a lab in China. So mostly this is about building a database and keeping samples in the freezers. This also involves constantly searching for mutations that might be dangerous and trying to anticipate what mutations might be forthcoming.
Here is a paragraph from the New York Post article you link to that is from the NIH clarifying what must happen if a deadlier variant is found: