It was in the news, very briefly, in early 2020 that we (i.e. U.S.A./NIH/Fauci) had given covid research to China. Finally, we are back to more information about that being in the news.
from the article (some e-mail exchanges and FOIA information):
"Fauci was alerted in late January that the genome of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, betrayed signs of engineering."
[. . .]
"NIAID had indeed supported Baric’s studies with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. It had also funded similar work through EcoHealth Alliance, an American nonprofit.
Some of the experiments sponsored by EcoHealth Alliance, which does not have labs of its own, occurred at a BSL-3 or BSL-2 level at the Wuhan lab complex, which had a history of biosafety challenges.
Baric himself has called for an interrogation of a possible lab origin of COVID-19, alluding to the work conducted in BSL-2, according to a report by MIT Technology Review."