Reported claim

“Lawrence Tabak, Deputy Director of National Institutes of Health, described to Congress in October 2021 a limited gain-of-function experiment in which researchers used WIV1 bat coronavirus with spike proteins replaced and infected genetically modified mice, with some mice becoming more severely ill than with unmodified virus.”

Held steady; reporting was consistent but did not move the assessment.

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