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A new report out today from The Intercept shows that NIH officials were aware of EcoHealth Alliance conducting banned gain-of-function research experiments. Despite this knowledge, they allowed EcoHealth Alliance to "craft" their own language describing the research they were conducting, exempting themselves from additional oversight.
Sometime around October 20th, 2021, the NIH quietly deleted a section of their website that defined gain-of-function research. Senator Rand Paul and Congressman James Comer, sent a letter to the NIH demanding answers as to why the information was deleted and questioning whether or not the deletion was related to the release of a letter, admitting to gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.