Long thread on Terry McAuliffe in 2015:

With Terry McAuliffe running for governor of Virginia again, it’s time to bring up how in 2015 McAuliffe, as VA Gov, pushed out a Democrat, who was a veteran and former VA state prosecutor, from running for... the VA state senate in east Loudon County in order to select for the campaign, the wife of a key member of the FBI for the expected investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private server. In early 2015, Thomas Mulrine (70 y/o), an attorney, retired army colonel,

Thanks to @TheLastRefuge2 for pointing out the Obama admin lifted the block on Gain-of-Function research on 1/9/17. It also only 4 days later (1/13/17) they updated the guidance on FDA Emergency Use Approval (EUA) for Medical Products during a pandemic.

federalregister.gov/documents/2017… This EUA paved the way for the introduction of the Moderna and BioNTech (Pfizer) Covid vaccines since they never received actual FDA approval. But the EUA regulation has a caveat:
"There are no adequate, approved, and available alternatives".