CV and mad panic behaviour

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I read a while back that covid research was being done in US  facilities up until a few years ago,  I think during Obama's time. He cut the funding and stopped it and it was transferred to China, where it continued with US institutional support as well as from other sources including Australia. Chinese scientists have been involved from the earliest stages both in the US and other places.

That would be SARS and MERS research I presume?

SARS-CoV-2 is a novel virus, new to science in 2020.