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Trump Bans Federal Gain-of-Function Research Via Executive Order

By Benjamin Bartee

President Trump and HHS Secretary RFK Jr. continue to rack up wins in their promised bid to clean up the Public Health™ bureaucracy.

 Via USA Today (emphasis added):

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on May 5 to halt federal funding for a type of biomedical research in China and Iran, aiming to prevent the development of another pandemic like COVID-19.

Trump and some federal agencies have long theorized that the pandemic began at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which the Chinese deny.

“It can leak out innocently, stupidly and incompetently, and half destroy the world,” Trump told reporters at the White House.

His executive order targeted the elimination of what is called gain-of-function, which studies how viruses become more powerful*. The United States funded that sort of research at the Wuhan lab, in the city where the initial outbreak was reported.

*Gain-of-function is not the “study of how viruses become more powerful”; it is the proactive souping-up of viruses — just to see what happens and, in theory, to get ahead of mutations that almost certainly would never occur in nature.

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