Trump orders curb on virus research he blames for Covid pandemic
Source: AFP (Agence France-Presse)
10h US President Donald Trump on Monday ordered new limitations on a form of biological research his administration says caused the Covid-19 pandemic through a lab leak in China.
The United States will halt funding in certain countries for so-called "gain-of-function" experiments -- aimed at enhancing the properties of pathogens —- according to an executive order Trump signed Monday at the White House.
"There's no laboratory that's immune from leaks -- and this is going to prevent inadvertent leaks from happening in the future and endangering humanity," Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote on X.
Trump has long championed the theory that SARS-CoV-2 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology as a result of gain-of-function research -- an alternative to the theory that the virus spilled over naturally from wild animals to humans at a seafood market in the same city.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-orders-curb-on-virus-research-he-blames-for-covid-pandemic/ar-AA1EdvdS
Sigh -- the US government website Covid.gov, which previously focused on promoting vaccine and testing information, is now devoted to highlighting arguments that favor the lab leak.
I got my Covid shot about a week ago (after being long long overdue. I'm over 70 yo).
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In related recent news:
Updated Covid vaccines for the fall may be in jeopardy under Kennedy's new rules", NBC News 5/1/25 (LBN posting)
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RFK Jr. to require placebo-controlled studies for new vaccines, NPR, 5/1/25
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/05/01/npr-rfk-jr-placebo-vaccine-testing-studies
Aren't there still about as many Covid deaths as vehicle deaths?
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MN Bill Would Criminalize mRNA Vaccines, Label Them 'Weapons Of Mass Destruction' (not the Onion), 4/22/25
https://www.democraticunderground.com/105914577
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