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A 2014 archived USAID report
proudly states that the agency funded research on "novel bat SARS-like coronaviruses" at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

These newly identified coronaviruses were found to bind to the human ACE-2 receptor, suggesting the potential for direct transmission from bats to humans.

Similarly, SARS-CoV-2—the virus responsible for COVID-19—exhibited a highly efficient ability to bind to the ACE-2 receptor, significantly enhancing its ability to infect humans.

The USAID report states:

"In China, PREDICT partnered with USAID and set up long-term collaborations with the Wuhan Institute of Virology."

"PREDICT isolated for the first time SARS-like coronaviruses from bats sampled in China, fully characterized the whole genome of two novel bat SARS-like coronaviruses, and demonstrated a bat SARS-like coronavirus with 99.98% sequence homology to SARS coronavirus. The virus was found to bind to the human ACE-2 cell receptor, suggesting that direct transmission to humans from bats is possible."

"PREDICT has found a surprisingly high number of positives of SARS-like coronaviruses in bats sampled in China. Several of these viruses were novel, and some bats tested positive for multiple novel viruses."

"PREDICT investigators also isolated for the first time and characterized the binding receptor from a SARS-like coronavirus from a Chinese horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus sinicus; Ge et al. 2013). Results showed the virus was able to bind to the human ACE-2 cell receptor, suggesting that direct transmission to humans from bats is possible."

Was research on novel bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology a good use of American taxpayer funds?

Link below👇

USAID PREDICT: REDUCING PANDEMIC RISK, PROMOTING GLOBAL HEALTH

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