we're in the freezer of the wuhan institute of virology. now, that's probably telling you something. now, what about the variants? how is it? sorry. yes. so obviously viruses evolve the time and we've been able to in real time during this pandemic evolution happening. they a lot these particularly these coronaviruses, they have rna genes instead of dna ones. that's more unstable. the single stranded. so they don't they can't correct themselves. so there's a lot of mistakes made in the and those mistakes often make the virus less effective but sometimes make it more effective and then those get selected. so variation plus selection mutation and plus selection is evolution. and we saw very clearly rather beautiful graphs, graphs of of one variant being replaced by, another alpha the delta than gamma. then the omicron one and so on. and if you remember was was a particularly nasty one, but in each case the variant was more infectious than the last. so the virus is getting it was already good at transmitting between people, but it was getting b

of migrants with something likable while. maria: that's unbelievable this is really scary. >> ebola has a 50% natural kill rate china's weapon i seen this at the wuhan institute of virologyake it more transmissible or fatal the hobby disease to exterminate the mega population and extermination is a topic permitted in china's tightly controlled public square in chinese official subsequently talked about exterminating every american spirit i do understand what the biden here is a administrations doctrine anything about the. >> i wish i could answer that question. >> john ratcliffe said the former dni that china has the same goal in iran has a single the democrats do to stop donald trump. >> honestly they have hatred for him as we seen throughout the campaign. >> the ccp using hometown association across the country as partners to influence u.s. political discourse surveillance harass the activists in the u.s., the wall street journal writes that the hometown association of eastern asia and new york has been central to allegations that your covenant kathy hochul's chief of staff and andrew cuomo linda sun was working at the chinese agent now but reports for years the hometo

of months where th infection started. there is a possibility that this virus, which wasaturally occurring, was under secret study at the wuhan institu of virologythere's no evidence to support that but it is certainly something you would want to know about andhey have stewalled virtually all effor to try and learn more about what happened in late 2020 -- late 2019 and early 2020, so it's difficult to answerhose questions. peter: what exactly does gain of function mean? dr. collins: oh boy. at h caused more spilled ink and more poding of tables than it should. gain of function in common parlance is just basically where you take a particular biological entity and you provide something that it didn't have before, so piano lessons would be again a function for a child who did not know how to play the piano and now they do. certainly, immunizations, vacces, provide you a gain of functi. your bodcan now fight off that infection ift comes after you where it could not have before. where it gets ve contentious is is it in fact a gooidea or a bad idea to in a laboratory do udies of potentially dangerous viruses to see what would make them even more dange

of months where the infection started. there is a possibility that this virus which was naturally occurring was under secret study at the wuhan institute of virologythere is no evidence to support that but it is something you want to know about and they have stonewalled virtually all efforts to learn more about what happened in late 2019 and early 2,020 so that it is very difficult to answer those questions. >> host: there was a phrase used during the pandemic, gain of function. what does that mean? >> that has caused more spilled ink and more pounding of tables than it should. gain of function in common parlance is just basically where you take a particular biological entity and provide something that it didn't have before. piano lessons would be gain of function for a child who didn't know how to play the piano and now they do. certainly immunizations, vaccines provide you again of function, your body can fight off that infection if it comes at you where it couldn't have before you got the vaccine. where it gets very contentious is, is it a good idea or bad idea to, in the laboratory do studies of potentially dangerous viruses, to see what would

we're in the freezer of the wuhan institute of virology. now, that's probably telling you something. now, what about the variants? how is it? sorry. yes. so obviously viruses evolve the time and we've been able to in real time during this pandemic evolution happening. they a lot these particularly these coronaviruses, they have rna genes instead of dna ones. that's more unstable. the single stranded. so they don't they can't correct themselves. so there's a lot of mistakes made in the and those mistakes often make the virus less effective but sometimes make it more effective and then those get selected. so variation plus selection mutation and plus selection is evolution. and we saw very clearly rather beautiful graphs, graphs of of one variant being replaced by, another alpha the delta than gamma. then the omicron one and so on. and if you remember was was a particularly nasty one, but in each case the variant was more infectious than the last. so the virus is getting it was already good at transmitting between people, but it was getting b