[ketamine__]

This is not true.

https://twitter.com/r_h_ebright/status/1405239078698815489?s...

> The Wuhan lab constructed novel chimeric viruses that combined spike genes from new bat SARS-related coronaviruses with the genomic backbone of another bat SARS-related coronavirus.

> These were viruses that were novel, not viruses that were present in nature.

https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...

[lamontcg]

A rando on twitter is not a source, they're just citing the same circular reasons speculation as assertive truth and there's no proof.

And your citation is to:

> Discovery of a rich gene pool of bat SARS-related coronaviruses provides new insights into the origin of SARS coronavirus

Yes. There is a massive amount that we still don't know about the genoomic diversity of sarbecoviruses in bats in and around China. This is the kind of study that we need a whole lot more of. No idea what your point is.

[ketamine__]

1) It's Richard Ebright who has been quoted in numerous articles. He isn't some "rando on twitter." You didn't read his sub-tweets.

2) You only read the title of the article I linked that was in sub-tweets. See the following tweet:

https://mobile.twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/14052391926286...

> The construction of novel chimeric SARS-related coronaviruses able to infect human cells and lab animals at WIV (1) was published with acknowledgment to NIH grant AI110964 (https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...) and (2) was reported to NIH under NIH grant AI110964 (https://reporter.nih.gov/search/0dVX_GElSEGDOsNMZq7qaQ/proje...)

So, yes, gain of function research was happening at WIV.