It was revealed in a series of emails obtained from Dr Anthony Fauci under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), that on Saturday February 1, 2020 he attended a “confidential” teleconference set up by Jeremy Farrar, the head of the Wellcome Trust (a WHO partner) with 11 other invited participants including Dr Fauci and Dr Francis Collins, but notably absent/excluded were President Trump’s other coronavirus task force members, in particular CDC director Dr Redfield – who’s view didn’t follow their “narrative”.
This “emergency” teleconference appears to have been sparked because of the “revelation” from Kristian Andersen et al, that the virus genome was “inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory”, thus it could potentially be engineered and of lab origin. [1]
By March 5, 2023 in a congressional memorandum, it stated that “[i]t was on this conference call that Drs. Fauci and Collins were first warned that COVID-19 [techically SARS-CoV-2] may have leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China and, further, may have been intentionally genetically manipulated”
Three days later, on February 4, 2020, “four participants of the conference call authored a paper entitled “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” (Proximal Origin) and …[p]rior to final publication in Nature Medicine, the paper was sent to Dr. Fauci for editing and approval.” The preprint was published Feb 16, 2020.