Sometime in 2015, most likely: Someone at the NIH approved money to be used for research at the Wuhan lab. The timing would suggest that this was done to skirt the 2014 congressional moratorium on gain of function research. For the last year and a half, questions have been raised about how and why EcoHealth…
The Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory’s (WNBL) BSL-4 lab was constructed as a result of an agreement between the PRC and France that was signed after the 2003 SARS pandemic. Construction was completed in 2015, but due to delays the BSL-4 space did not become operational until early 2018. This is an addition to an existing…