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> A crisis that was caused by the US government doing cheap "gain of function" virology research in Wuhan.

China was performing the research, not the US. Which was precisely the problem. China's lab incompetence (which was documented prior to the pandemic) may have released the virus. The US apparently provided a very modest amount of funding to the lab in Wuhan toward gain of function research.



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