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“Hundreds of scientists opposed a risky type of research ultimately banned by the Obama administration in 2014 but subsequently funded by the top U.S. immunologist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, that likely led to the creation and accidental release of the COVID-19 virus, according to a weekend report.”
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/01/25/hundreds-of-scientists-opposed-frankenstein-research-funded-by-fauci-that-may-link-to-covid-19-1021027/
“The US government surprised many researchers on 17 October (2014) when it announced that it will temporarily stop funding new research that makes certain viruses more deadly or transmissible. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is also asking researchers who conduct such ‘gain-of-function’ experiments on influenza, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) to stop their work until a risk assessment is completed — leaving many unsure of how to proceed.
“I think it’s really excellent news,” says Marc Lipsitch, an epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, who has long called for more oversight for gain-of-function research. “I think it’s common sense to deliberate before you act.”
Critics of such work argue that it is unnecessarily dangerous and risks accidentally releasing viruses with pandemic potential — such as an engineered H5N1 influenza virus that easily spreads between ferrets breathing the same air1, 2. In 2012, such concerns prompted a global group of flu researchers to halt gain-of-function experiments for a year (see Nature http://doi.org/wgx; 2012). The debate reignited in July, after a series of lab accidents involving mishandled pathogens at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia.
https://www.nature.com/news/us-suspends-risky-disease-research-1.16192
“The scientists lied.
She said she can tell from looking at it that it was created in the lab, and has proven it. There is no good purpose to gain-of-function research. It is too dangerous. The only purpose is to harm people and target people, she said.”
https://www.independentsentinel.com/now-we-have-a-pretty-clear-idea-of-where-cov-originated/
Coronaviruses, a number of which cause respiratory illnesses in people, were mentioned as a class of viruses that could be readily weaponized. Indeed, the Chinese scientists were even more explicit, pointing out in their paper that the coronavirus that causes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, was an ideal candidate for a bioweapon.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/china-virus-smoking-gun-found
“No, actually,” Fauci responded. He continued, adding he was “not convinced” that the virus has natural origins:
“No. I’m not convinced about that. I think that we should continue to investigate what went on in China until we find out to the best of our ability exactly what happened…”
https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/fauci-flip-flops-on-covid-origins/
“In China, AstraZeneca reached a licensing deal with Shenzhen-based firm BioKangtai. Under the pact, BioKangtai has exclusive rights in China to clinical development, production and commercialization rights to the vaccine.”
https://www.iol.co.za/news/world/covid-19-vaccines-where-they-are-produced-and-how-they-will-be-distributed-071b5781-3641-487a-b78b-15a04deef871