These newly-released emails dated February 1, 2020, display Dr. Fauci's knowledge of gain-of-function experiments at Wuhan University, an institution implicated as the starting point of the COVID pandemic.
Shan Chao was directed to "find out which one had the best ability to infect as many species as possible," and to "find out how easy it was to infect other species."
Citing "mounting connections between Dr. Hotez, Dr. Fauci, Dr. Jiang, Dr. Du, and Dr. Yusen with Chinese military scientists, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and the suspicious furin cleavage site."
A bill from the House Appropriations Committee would ban EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology from receiving funds from U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and other sources leading to the State Department.