The experts later concluded that it was unlikely that the virus was engineered in a laboratory.
In an email to Dr. Fauci sent on January 31 last year, Kristian G. Andersen of the Scripps Research Institute told the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director that some of SARS-CoV-2's features" look engineered."
"We have a good team lined up to look very critically at this, so we should know much more at the end of the weekend," Andersen told Fauci in an chain of emails obtained by BuzzFeed News through a Freedom of Information Act request.
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