In 2018, U.S. State officials warned Washington that the WIV lab, which studies coronaviruses in bats, had a shortage of trained technicians.
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BUT! "No extra assistance to the labs was provided by the U.S. government in response to these cables."
“The cable was a warning shot,” one U.S. official said. “They were begging people to pay attention to what was going on"