Wow! Not only was the bat coronavirus research partly funded by NIH, but it was specifically funded by NIAID, which is of course run by Fauci: "Fatal swine acute diarrhoea syndrome caused by an HKU2-related coronavirus of bat origin": Published: 04 April 2018 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (Award Number R01AI110964) to P.D. and Z.-L.S. And USAID, where we can of course find Dr. Birx: United States Agency for International Development Emerging Pandemic Threats PREDICT project (AID-OAA-A-14-00102) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0010-9