Several sources, including this from Fox News, report new documents show Dr. Fauci lied about his involvement in the Wuhan lab, perhaps provided government funding, and directed at a distance what they studied. This was done through a cut-out organization - EcoHealth Alliance - to provide a fig-leaf of deniability, as long as nobody dug further.
I will not be at all surprised if it eventually becomes clear the U.S. taxpayer funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology to do bat virus work deemed too dangerous to be done in the U.S., and did so at Dr. Fauci's behest.
In that sense China's claim that we're to blame may be partially true, although we did not force WIV to accept the contract or grant - greed isn't an alibi. It also doesn't excuse their sloppy contagion control protocols. And it is clear the work didn't happen at Fort Detrick, MD, as China has claimed.
