Uncovered documents reportedly show that Fauci's NIAID gave $3.7 million to scientists at Wuhan Lab EDIT: I went to find the Daily Mail article and found this: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8211291/U-S-government-gave-3-7million-grant-Wuhan-lab-experimented-coronavirus-source-bats.html I did not see Fauci's name or the NAID mentioned, just the NIH giving $3.7 million to the Wuhan lab: The US National Institutes of Health, a government agency, awarded a $3.7million research grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology The lab is the center of several conspiracy theories that suggest it is the original source of the coronavirus outbreak  The institute experimented on bats from the source of the coronavirus   They were captured more than 1,000 miles away in Yunnan Sequencing of the Covid-19 genome has traced it to bats to Yunnan's caves The U.S. government funded research on coronavirus transmission in the lab over the past decade In light of that, the fort russ  representation of the Daily Mail article was misleading, I'll leave the link but I'm deleting my original excerpts from it because they took liberty in adding words or names like Fauci, mixed in with quotes from Daily Mail or NYT as if their comments were part of the article content.  My apologies I didn't check it before posting the title. title link A Federal Ban on Making Lethal Viruses Is Lifted http://archive.is/JSYU3 December 19, 2017 NIH Lifts Funding Pause on Gain-of-Function Research Dec 2017 The National Institutes of Health has lifted a three-year moratorium on controversial experiments that carry the risk of triggering a viral pandemic, but may also prepare the United States for a deadly outbreak. As Nell Greenfieldboyce reports for NPR, the Department of Health and Human Services revealed a new framework on Tuesday for guiding federal funding of research that involves genetically altering dangerous viruses like influenza, SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome).  “Gain-of-function” research, as this contentious field of study is called, sees virologists create mutations in the lab that can help them predict how a given virus will evolve—and whether it will become more powerful or transmissible in the future. But should an enhanced virus escape the lab, critics warn, the results could be disastrous. The NIH has spent the past three years weighing arguments about gain-of-function experiments—during which time they banned funding this work—and has ultimately decided that they are worth the risk. https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/nih-lifts-funding-pause-gain-function-research