From Gumby4Christ on Twitter:
Ralph Baric's lab spent a considerable amount of time and money in the 80s/90s researching how to induce heart disease with coronaviruses.
https://sph.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/112/2016/09/CV_Ralph_Baric.pdf
@adam I have been deep on Baric, concerning furin cleavage insertion at s1/s2, battified mice GOF with novel CV, but this is the first time I have seen this tidbit about his extensive research into inducing myocarditis
