378 pages of NIAID-EcoHealth Alliance email correspondence and grant progress reports (spanning roughly 2016-2020), obtained via a FOIA lawsuit, including a 2016 NIAID staff note that an EcoHealth/WIV progress report “appear[s] to involve research covered under the [2014 gain-of-function] pause,” and an over-two-years-late Sept-2020 progress report on the “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence” grant (R01AI110964). Shows NIH staff aware of, and internally flagging, gain-of-function-adjacent chimeric-virus work at WIV under this grant well before the pandemic, and EcoHealth’s slow/incomplete reporting on it.
relevance_note: Primary correspondence substantiating that US federal grant staff, not only outside critics, recognized the EcoHealth/WIV work as touching the gain-of-function line before COVID-19 emerged.