Of course, the large news comes with perhaps an even bigger caveat: according to the WSJ’s source, bird flu may be excluded from the momentary ban, which had beg the question: why?  ,
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The disease that the public health authorities have repeatedly promised may be the source of pandemic 2.0 should be the one that the gain-of-function delay may use to.
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This is not a continuous ban, and apparently it does not use to private-sector actors.
But let’s not seem a gift horse in the mouth.
NEW – President Trump to Halt Funding for Gain-of-Function Research
The Trump administration is working on an executive order that may temporarily halt federal funding for gain-of-function analysis. The goal of the purchase would be to prevent scientists with U. S. revenue from … photograph. twitter.com/8 YiJXr1RJ5
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd ) January 23, 2025
Via Wall Street Journal (emphasis added ):
A difficult and contentious branch of virus research that makes the pathogens more contagious or harmful is currently being investigated by the Trump administration in preparation for an executive order that may stop federal funding, at least temporarily.
The goal of the purchase would be to prevent scientists with U. S. revenue from conducting” gain-of-function “research on pathogens that may endanger human wellbeing, people familiar with the programs said.  ,
Some infections, such as the H5N1 bird-flu infection, may remain free from the purchase, one of the individuals said.  ,
The purchase hasn’t been finalized, and its details are a work in progress, the people said.
*Some Republicans have blamed the Covid-19 epidemic on gain-of-function analysis. It aids researchers in determining how infectious diseases are and finding ways to combat them, according to the perpetrators.
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” Some Republicans “blame COVID-19 on gain-of-function analysis? How about different British spy agencies, the House Oversight Committee that did a two-year research into the matter, and” people with common impression”?
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Justin Goodman, Senior Vice President at the leading federal watchdog group fighting misuse and abuse in Public Healthâ„¢, the White Coat Waste Project, issued the following speech:
We applaud President Trump for defusing dangerous and wasteful animal experiments that can cause pandemics as the group that first exposed and ended Fauci’s careless funding for gain-of-function animal tests in Wuhan that allegedly infected Patient Zero, caused COVID, and for which we are grateful. Since COVID broke out, we’ve led efforts with lawmakers like Senators Joni Ernst, Rand Paul, and Roger Marshall to cut taxpayer funding for gain-of-function. Despite what transpired in Wuhan, we were able to find out how the Biden Administration continued to fund it and how federal agencies had foolishly funded dangerous animal experiments to supercharge coronaviruses, monkeypox, and bird flu. Although Fauci may have retired and received a pardon, we will continue to work with Congress and the Trump Administration to remove it from our country.
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