Fauci and Collins approved funding for gain-of-function research at the Wuhan P4 Bioweapons Facility in China, where the horseshoe bat coronavirus was modified to infect humans. The virus escaped from the lab and spread globally, while China hoarded PPE and sold inferior products to the rest of the world. The WHO, influenced by China, initially denied human-to-human transmission. The original virus sample has not been released.