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In the grant proposal, for which EcoHealth Alliance was given $3.1 million
from 2014 to 2019, Daszak wrote that the Wuhan scientists would conduct “virus
infection experiments in cell culture and humanized mice” and look for
“spillover” from bats to humans.
“We will do this by sequencing the spike protein genes from all our
bat-[coronaviruses], creating mutants … We will also induce site mutations in
S proteins.”
Tinkering with a virus in the lab to make it more infectious to humans is the
very definition of “gain-of-function” research, as stated by the US
Department of Health and Human Services: “Research that improves the ability
of a pathogen to cause disease.”