told the congressman that U.S. subgrant funding flowed to the Wuhan Institute of Virology but said the research did not make pathogens more dangerous.
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“Starting in at least 2016 — and with no indication of a stop prior to the COVID-19 outbreak — WIV researchers conducted experiments involving RaTG13, the bat coronavirus identified by the WIV in January 2020 as its closest sample to SARS-CoV-2 (96.2% similar),” the department said in a fact sheet.
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