Morell noted separately on Thursday that if the virus leaked from a Wuhan lab, the U.S. would
shoulder some of the blame since it funded research at that lab through government grants from
2014-2019.
“If it did escape from the lab, not only bad on China but also bad on the U.S. for giving funding
to a lab with safety concerns,” Morell said, referring to State Department cables from early
2018 that warned of the lab’s risky coronavirus experiments and shortage of trained technicians.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/...out-coronavirus-man-made-origin-theory-226269
Regarding some of those State Dept. cables:
The Chinese researchers at WIV were receiving assistance from the Galveston National Laboratory at
the University of Texas Medical Branch and other U.S. organizations...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-coronaviruses/