the UNC people were the one's that were shut down (until the CDC and NIH got all secretive about it and Fauci quietly sent a few million to Wuhan to help facilitate bat man and bat woman).
huh?
Why are you always so far behind?
It's a bit convoluted, but domestic SARS/MERS research got placed in moratorium in 2014. Baric (UNC) and others got shut down.
The CDC, Fauci et. al. under the cover of secrecy started it all up again after the moratorium ended, and they off shored it.
The CDC was funding bat woman, first the collection of viruses, then Fauci started pushing "gain of control" research in 2019 and provided funding for that phase. Per Newsweek, over 200 scientists criticized the gain of control research because it essentially moves the virus through a process where they purposely create mutations that can jump to humans in order to do research for vaccines. Bat woman got $3.5 million from Fauci for the second phase and it also involved Fauci buddy Dr. Peter Daszak of the "Eco Health Alliance".
Both Fauci and Daszak need to answer a lot of questions, and both doth protest too much at the notion of the virus escaping the lab IMO.