Robert Redfield, the former CDC director (left) offered help to China in January 2020 to rule out the Wuhan lab (right) as a source of the COVID-19 pandemic. They twice rejected his offer.
Investigators working under the Trump administration came across a 2015 report warning about the dangers of gain of function research, it was reported on Thursday.
Read more about Wuhan lab head, US expert flagged coronavirus risk in 2015: Report on Business Standard. Shi Zhengli and epidemiologist Ralph Baric used mice as subjects and inserted the protein from a Chinese rufous horseshoe bat into the molecular structure of the SARS virus, creating a new pathogen
The head of China s Wuhan virology lab, also called as the bat woman , and an expert from the University of North Carolina in the US, had in a paper published in 2015 flagged the dangers of their gain-of-function experiment of a novel .