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Trump Reportedly Preparing an Executive Order Banning Federal Funding of Gain-of-Function Research
The Trump administration is reportedly preparing an executive order curtailing funding of "gain-of-function" research on pandemic pathogens, in what would seem to be an effort to prevent the next pandemic from spilling out of a federally funded laboratory.
On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the White House was hashing out the details of an order that would impose at least a temporary pause on funding of experiments that could make viruses more transmissible and or deadly...
The last three presidential administrations have all attempted to apply additional restrictions to gain-of-function research involving pandemic viruses over concerns that such research could cause a pandemic via lab accident or be used by nefarious actors to produce a bioweapon...
Granted, none of these frameworks proved to be particularly effective at their intended aims of limiting federal funding for gain-of-function research...
If personnel is policy, the second Trump administration's pause on gain-of-function research will be more effective...
On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the White House was hashing out the details of an order that would impose at least a temporary pause on funding of experiments that could make viruses more transmissible and or deadly...
The last three presidential administrations have all attempted to apply additional restrictions to gain-of-function research involving pandemic viruses over concerns that such research could cause a pandemic via lab accident or be used by nefarious actors to produce a bioweapon...
Granted, none of these frameworks proved to be particularly effective at their intended aims of limiting federal funding for gain-of-function research...
If personnel is policy, the second Trump administration's pause on gain-of-function research will be more effective...
