The DEFUSE project - to release GoF bat viruses into wild bats - to somehow defuse the threat of bat viruses - by making more of them! - was broken by DRASTIC.

@billybostickson has posted links to the leaked docs here.

He's come to the same conclusion i did - just because it didn't receive funding doesn't mean they didn't go ahead with it.

Only problem i see is, I would imagine, and reports are, that massive numbers of bats and other animals have been tested without finding the virus. For no-lab leakers, evidence of the virus in bats would be a get out of jail free card.

Therefore, if WIV/EcoHealth did do their crazy DEFUSE project, then it may not have been with Covid. Unless they succeeded in infecting themselves but failed to get it to take hold in bats.