"The trove of documents includes two previously unpublished grant proposals that were funded by the NIAID, as well as project updates relating to the EcoHealth Alliance’s research, which has been scrutinized amid increased interest in the origins of the pandemic."

The materials show that the 2014 and 2019 NIH grants to EcoHealth with subcontracts to WIV funded gain-of-function research as defined in federal policies in effect in 2014-2017 and potential pandemic pathogen enhancement as defined in federal policies in effect in 2017-present.

(This had been evident previously from published research papers that credited the 2014 grant and from the publicly available summary of the 2019 grant. But this now can be stated definitively from progress reports of the 2014 grant and the full proposal of the 2017 grant.)

The materials confirm the grants supported the construction--in Wuhan--of novel chimeric SARS-related coronaviruses that combined a spike gene from one coronavirus with genetic information from another coronavirus, and confirmed the resulting viruses could infect human cells.

The materials reveal that the resulting novel, laboratory-generated SARS-related coronaviruses also could infect mice engineered to display human receptors on cells ("humanized mice").

The materials further reveal for the first time that one of the resulting novel, laboratory-generated SARS-related coronaviruses--one not been previously disclosed publicly--was more pathogenic to humanized mice than the starting virus from which it was constructed...

...and thus not only was reasonably anticipated to exhibit enhanced pathogenicity, but, indeed, was *demonstrated* to exhibit enhanced pathogenicity.

The materials further reveal that the the grants also supported the construction--in Wuhan--of novel chimeric MERS-related coronaviruses that combined spike genes from one MERS-related coronavirus with genetic information from another MERS-related coronavirus.

The documents make it clear that assertions by the NIH Director, Francis Collins, and the NIAID Director, Anthony Fauci, that the NIH did not support gain-of-function research or potential pandemic pathogen enhancement at WIV are untruthful.

@R_H_Ebright So you're saying Rand Paul was right?

@ScottTotally On this question, yes.

@R_H_Ebright What happens next?

@NickytaLeb We wait to see whether the Speaker of the House, who consistently has opposed and obstructed a House committee investigation with subpoena power, changes her position.

@R_H_Ebright A) It changes 𝙖𝙗𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 about how you should respond to the virus if it is a lab leak vs totally natural occurrence. B) Is the "suggestion" (assuming one gives ignorant brain farts like this the dignity) to simply stop studying?

@ZaphodV Can there really be people this stupid?

@R_H_Ebright So you're saying a lab that studies viruses was caught studying viruses. Wow, what a scoop!

@DickyCunningham So many functional illiterates.

@R_H_Ebright The Intercept. 😂 😂 😂 Qualified experts have examined the EcoHealth Alliance study "up and down" and concluded that it does not constitute gain of function research.

@RebelPussy LOL

@R_H_Ebright An article doesn't mean there are actual documents. Where is the document? Anyone can make shit up and make it sound legit.

@lolyoulosenotme All 900 pages of documents are available at the links in the cited article. (In the future, you really should read articles before flaunting your ignorance in posts about articles.)