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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.”