https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/22/report-wuhan-lab-sought-funding-to...Report: Wuhan Lab Sought Funding to Create,
Release ‘Enhanced’ Coronaviruses into Bats
Researchers also wanted to create chimeric viruses that were “genetically enhanced to infect humans more easily, and requested $14 million from the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to fund the work,” the Telegraph reports. The papers show the researchers were hoping to introduce “human-specific cleavage sites” to bat coronaviruses, which would make it easier for the virus to enter human cells.
As the Telegraph noted, “When Covid-19 was first genetically sequenced, scientists were puzzled about how the virus had evolved such a human-specific adaptation at the cleavage site on the spike protein, which is the reason it is so infectious.”
“The scary part is they were making infectious chimeric Mers viruses,” the researcher said.
“These viruses have a fatality rate over 30 per cent, which is at least an order of magnitude more deadly than Sars-CoV-2. If one of their receptor replacements made Mers spread similarly, while maintaining its lethality,
this pandemic would be nearly apocalyptic.”