early 2019, NIH approved two influenza research projects that used gain of function methods

5-30   Brazil new cases/current cases  13.6% increase/day  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/brazil/

Mexico   averaging 30% increase/day over last 3 days  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/mexico

Russia    4% increase/day  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/russia/

India   8/78= 10% increase/day  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/

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Key US biologic research being directed from behind closed doors:

4-28-20  The NIH established a framework for determining how the research would go forward: scientists have to get approval from a panel of experts, who would decide whether the risks were justified.

The reviews were indeed conducted—but in secret, for which the NIH has drawn criticism.  In early 2019, after a reporter for Science magazine discovered that the NIH had approved two influenza research projects that used gain of function methods, scientists who oppose this kind of research excoriated the NIH in an editorial in the Washington Post.

"We have serious doubts about whether these experiments should be conducted at all," wrote Tom Inglesby of Johns Hopkins University and Marc Lipsitch of Harvard.  "[W]ith deliberations kept behind closed doors, none of us will have the opportunity to understand how the government arrived at these decisions or to judge the rigor and integrity of that process.”   https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan-lab-millions-us-dollars-risky-coronavirus-research-1500741