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There were several NIAID grants awarded to @PeterDaszak's EcoHealth Alliance between 2014 & 2019, where research for 'Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence' was conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).

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Project number 'R01AI110964' includes the following experiments conducted on Coronaviruses (see image).

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What this means is that they set out to create novel coronaviruses with the highest possible infectivity for human cells. Image
The Wuhan Institute for Virology (WIV) is known for it's creation of 'novel chimeric viruses', as described in the linked scientific article:

'The genetic structure of SARS‐CoV‐2 does not rule out a laboratory origin.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… Image
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