Latest on Covid Origins A recent FOIA request by Right To Know’s Emily Kopp yielded new information about Project Defuse, a DARPA grant proposal from 2018 to study bat-borne Coronaviruses that included Wuhan Institute of Virology researcher Shi Zhengli. The newly released documents, show collaborators’ internal notes on drafts of the grant proposal, which yielded two small revelations:
- The grant proposal tried to downplay the involvement of the Chinese collaborators doing bioengineering work,.