Read down far enough in the linked article and you will get to the following
brief description of what the Wuhan Institute of Virology, funded by a part of
NIH, probably unleashed on the world in 2019. This is not exactly news to some
of us.
"What this means, in non-technical language, is that Shi set out to create
novel coronaviruses with the highest possible infectivity for human cells."
The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan? -
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (thebulletin.org)