Ralph Baric

If Covid was an engineered virus, it's likely Baric had a hand in it. He is the world's leading expert

Science , Jan 11, 2020: Ralph Baric, a coronavirus researcher at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill .. immediately .. reverse-engineer(ed) a live virus from the sequence .. to develop antibody tests and to start experiments in animal models. “If you want to have a strong public health response, you have to do this quickly,” says Baric, who leads one of the few labs in the world that can re-create coronaviruses just from their sequences. (Bureaucratic hurdles would make it difficult for China to ship the actual virus quickly to other countries, he says.) (Science's brackets)

SARS/MERS/GoF expert/activist.  Argued in Feb, 2018 that  biosafety .. over-reach (GoF regulation) prevents countermeasure development that could limit or prevent future pandemics. (scio-politics)

SARS study in 2006 was funded by US military (military)

In 2015 he collaborated with Shi on GoF - one of the western scientists who helped export GoF technology to China.  (Chinese military)

One of the first to jump ship from WIV (May 2021) (rat cunning)

Helped develop Remdesivir  (did they think this would be a magic bullet? the antidote?)