Australian national broadcaster embraces covid lab-leak theory as Biden administration takes closer look at the possibility
National Institutes of Health (NIH) to do gain-of-function research. Describing the lab experiments, Swan said: “Two or three years ago they were doing what were called gainer function tests, they were fiddling with the genetic structure of coronavirus to see what would make into a pandemic virus.” Gain-of-function research is a risky area of study that makes viruses even more contagious. “There’s an indication that virologists in the institute got sick in November [2019] with an illness,” Swan said. “So there are increasing signs that the institute of virology may well be the so...