The WIV Has Been Engineering “Chimeric Viruses” Like Covid
The Zhengli led Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases has been conducting risky gain-of-function experiments on bat coronaviruses like RaTG13 to determine how the virus could be modified to spread to humans. RaTG13 is 96.2% similar to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19 in humans. Zhengli has been studying the bat virus since a SARS-like virus killed several miners in the cave it was sampled from.