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Ted Cruz: “I think they were engaged in research, gain of function…”

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That the weight of the evidence was the COVID virus came from the Wuhan Institute for Virology where they were studying coronaviruses derived from bats and that it escaped. I think it was likely an accidental lab leak. I think they were engaged in research, gain of function research where they took existing viruses, they made them more dangerous, they more transmissible, more targeted at humans. I think they were studying them and then they screwed up. They had lax. They had lousy biosecurity measures. And I think a doctor or a researcher or someone got the disease, walked out and spread it to someone else. (27:45–27:55)

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Asserts that the Wuhan Institute for Virology was conducting gain-of-function research on coronaviruses.

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