What is gain of function and what does it have to do with the COVID-19 virus?

President Joe Biden last week asked the national intelligence community to redouble efforts to investigate where the virus originated.

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, of funding experiments that led to a modified, more deadly coronavirus.

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The NIH funding Fauci referenced went to EcoHealth Alliance, which hired the Wuhan lab to do genetic analyses of coronaviruses in bats to determine how the animals spread the virus to humans.

So far, there has been no evidence that the virus was created using gain of function research and then escaped the Wuhan lab.

“As we analyze what went wrong and what we can do in the future, we have to have answers to these questions, too,” Sen.

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