Leaked documents show that scientists planned to blend genetic data of closely related strains and grow completely new coronaviruses in 2018.
The plans made in the DARPA documents included inserting a section into existing viruses to make them more infectious to humans and inoculating wild bats with aerosolised engineered spike proteins from viruses.
The DARPA proposals, which were leaked to the DRASTIC pandemic origins analysis group, show that the team intended to use sequences from naturally occurring coronaviruses to create a new sequence that was an average of all the strains. A WHO collaborator, who did not want to be identified for fear of retaliation, explained the proposal as follows: “This means that they would take various sequences from similar coronaviruses and create a new sequence that is essentially the average of them. It would be a new virus sequence, not a 100 per cent match to anything.
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