NPR Nov 7 2014: So Obama paused SARS and MERS chimeric flu-bat hybrid virulent air transmissible via droplets move spike test in mouse tissues and Baric was sad he could no longer make deadly virus because Obama thought it would get out to population. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/11/07/361219361/how-a-tilt-toward-safety-stopped-a-scientists-virus-research

So funny
"Baric says, when it comes to SARS and MERS, there are key differences between people & mice.

"No. 1, mice don't sneeze," says Baric, so they don't transmit these diseases through the air. And adapting these viruses to mice actually makes safer."
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/11/07/361219361/how-a-tilt-toward-safety-stopped-a-scientists-virus-research

Death rates from the coronavirus — a calculation that divides the number of known deaths by the confirmed case total — vary widely by country.
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-death-rate-in-us-uk-italy-china-compared-2020-4

Dec 19 2017 (Trump is president) he cancels Obama's Nov 2014 Pause on Gain of Function research. Trump resumed Baric lab modifying SARS & MERS & #COVIDー19 virus development with ACE2 ferrets making virulently air transmissable airborne droplets to nasal https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/12/nih-lifts-3-year-ban-funding-risky-virus-studies

Trump resumed "GOF papers and several accidents in U.S. biocontainment labs. In October 2014, they announced an unprecedented “pause” on funding for 21 GOF studies of influenza, MERS, & SARS viruses. (At the time, NIH said there were 18 paused studies.)"
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/12/nih-lifts-3-year-ban-funding-risky-virus-studies

Has Baric responded about gain-of-function research it's so easy: SARS backbone chimeric blend w/ bat get better reception via move the spike apply to ferrets ACE2 bonds with people/cats/dogs test virulence by age & ethnicity it's routine good stuff https://twitter.com/ThomasConnors/status/1251373580694237184

"Harvard's chemistry department chair Lieber was a contractual participant of the secret Chinese payment program and was paid $50,000 monthly since 2012, along with $158,000 in living expenses & $1.74 million to set up a research lab at Wuhan University." https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/exposing-harvards-chinese-agent-charles-liebers-virus-transmitters