Huff points to China’s gain-of-function (GOF) experiments, which he believes were carried out within relaxed biosecurity environments and led to the leak at the US-funded Wuhan Institute of Virology
- Dr Andrew Huff, the former vice president of EcoHealth Alliance, has claimed that SARS-CoV-2 was genetically engineered and leaked from a facility in China
- Huff said he has no proof that the leak was deliberate however does claim in his explosive tell-all book that biosecurity at the Chinese facility was compromised
- EcoHealth Alliance had been studying different coronaviruses in bats for more than ten years with funding from the National Institutes of Health
- Led by Dr Peter Daszak – there were concerns about the ties between Wuhan and EcoHealth Alliance – there most recent grant came in September 2021