In 2018, Fauci's office received an annual progress report for NIH grant AI110964 reporting that researchers in Wuhan had constructed genetically enhanced SARS viruses that efficiently replicated in human cells, that exhibited 10,000x enhanced viral growth in lungs of mice engineered to posses receptors for SARS viruses, and exhibited enhanced pathogenicity and 3x enhanced lethality in mice engineered to posses receptors for SARS viruses...in unequivocal violation of the Pause and P3CO Policy and in unequivocal violation of the Terms and Conditions of the grant.