🚨DARPA’s PREEMPT program sought to “predict” future pathogens’ evolutionary and wildlife backstories before outbreaks—then EcoHealth, WIV, and Baric submitted DEFUSE into it.

The government-funded EcoHealth-Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)-Ralph Baric research network at the center of the COVID-19 origins controversy spent years before the pandemic helping build the SARS-related coronavirus reference space that would later be used to explain SARS-CoV-2’s supposed evolutionary history.

At the same time, the network was constructing experimental SARS-related coronaviruses and ultimately proposed creating SARS-CoV-2-like experimental systems in the 2018 DARPA proposal known as DEFUSE.

Then SARS-CoV-2 appeared.

The EcoHealth-WIV side of the collaborating network was heavily involved in building the digital coronavirus sequence reference space, while the Baric-UNC side supplied the reverse-genetics capability for turning selected digital sequences from that space into experimental outputs.

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