This item first broke on the alternative internet media, but was soon taken up by some of the legacy media, the story being so huge. In short, the Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli – known as 'Batwoman' – who worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, met with the US government regarding a secret project to make corona viruses more lethal. This meeting occurred prior to the Covid-19 outbreak in June 2017.
Research funds from the US were given for gain-of-function research genetically engineering mRNA spike proteins to make corona viruses more infectious to humans. The documents that have been released from Freedom of Information requests have disturbing email revelations: “Using the subject heading: 'Potential visit ... by our Chinese co-investigator', Peter Daszak, the $460,000-a-year head of EcoHealth, writes: 'Zhengli and I will do a double act, and we'll cover the work we're doing ... as well as the broadscale surveillance of bats for novel viruses'. Professor Zhengli became known as 'Batwoman' because of her virus-hunting trips to the bat caves of southern China, hundreds of miles from Wuhan, where her team collected more than 10,000 animal samples.”