In 2017 Marc Lipsitch, a leading epidemiologist at Harvard, warned already for the risk of a pandemic caused by gain of function research: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08837-7 (end of article)
That same Marc Lipsitch was one of the scientists that signed a letter in May that asked for a deeper and objective investigation about the origins of Covid-19: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6543/694.1
He explained his motivation for the letter in an interview:
https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2021/05/16/scientists-inve...
In this interview he also expressed his regret that the discussion about the COVID origin had become so polarized.
The man was right in 2017 but sadly most people didn't hear him ..
That same Marc Lipsitch was one of the scientists that signed a letter in May that asked for a deeper and objective investigation about the origins of Covid-19: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6543/694.1
He explained his motivation for the letter in an interview: https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2021/05/16/scientists-inve... In this interview he also expressed his regret that the discussion about the COVID origin had become so polarized. The man was right in 2017 but sadly most people didn't hear him ..