[johnforbes]

"For years, Dr. Ralph Baric, a virologist in the U.S., has been collaborating with Dr. Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Virology Institute, sharing his discoveries about how to create super viruses. This gain-of-function research has been funded by the NIH. … Dr. Fauci, do you still support funding of the NIH funding of the lab in Wuhan,” Senator Paul inquired before Fauci asserted the claims were “entirely and completely incorrect.”

Shi’s resume, however, lists a $665,000 grant from the NIAID aimed at studying “the ecology of bat coronaviruses and the risk of future coronavirus emergence” from the year 2014 to 2019.