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Federal officials in 2014 paused 18 projects before releasing 2017 guidelines that allowed work to move forward. But the debate flared again during the COVID-19 pandemic, when some scientists and Republican politicians, including Trump, alleged that the

coronavirus responsible came from GOF work at a lab in Wuhan, China,

that had received NIH funding.

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Regarding: "coronavirus responsible came from GOF work at a lab in Wuhan, China,", Please do not post opinion as fact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_SARS-CoV-2 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8373617/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11406950/