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President Trump signed an executive order on Monday to restrict federal funding for gain-of-function research.
“In all of the history of gain-of-function research, we cannot point to a single good thing that has come of it,” Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said.
“Today, I commend President Trump for his courage and his vision in ending U.S. bioweapons research,” he added.
WATCH:
.@SecKennedy tells the story of how America came to fund Gain-of-Function research in Wuhan: "In all of the history of Gain-of-Function research, we cannot point to a single good thing that has come of it." pic.twitter.com/D3mgDNYRyP
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 5, 2025
From the New York Post:
The order will yank funding from “any present and all future” gain-of-function research — money which federal agencies have had difficulty tracking — as well as deputize the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other agencies to identify biological research harmful to public health or threatening to national security.
“These measures will drastically reduce the potential for lab-related incidents involving gain-of-function research, like that conducted on bat coronaviruses in China by the EcoHealth Alliance and Wuhan Institute of Virology,” according to a White House fact sheet reviewed by The Post…
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