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Before COVID, an NIH lab chief proposed making a SARS-like bat virus more infectious

On a Sunday morning in October 2019, the chief of the virus ecology unit at the National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories emailed a postdoctoral scientist in his lab with an idea.

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Karolina Corin

Pamela Ferdinand

Natasha Gilbert

Lewis Kamb

Stacy Malkan

Hana Mensendiek

Becky Morrison

Gary Ruskin

Sainath Suryanarayanan

Joseph Winters

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