re: Fauci Funded Wuhan Lab and sent researchers to make coronavirus pandemic friendly.

No surprise the OT is down voting this.

99% they were too lazy to read or stupid to comprehend.

100% Karens

This is what happens when you put someone with a Muslim sounding name in the government. Terrorism

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Buncha jackasses in here. Read the link.

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Nevertheless, in 2014, under pressure from the Obama administration, the National of Institutes of Health instituted a moratorium on the work, suspending 21 studies.

Three years later, though—in December 2017—the NIH ended the moratorium and the second phase of the NIAID project, which included the gain-of-function research, began.

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Yeah, I was curious when funding came back again. We covered Gain-of-Function ethics in a research methods class I had and the government funding was virtually impossible to get at the time (under Obama).

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Gain-of-function (GOF) research involves experimentation that aims or is expected to (and/or, perhaps, actually does) increase the transmissibility and/or virulence of pathogens. Such research, when conducted by responsible scientists, usually aims to improve understanding of disease causing agents, their interaction with human hosts, and/or their potential to cause pandemics. The ultimate objective of such research is to better inform public health and preparedness efforts and/or development of medical countermeasures. Despite these important potential benefits, GOF research (GOFR) can pose risks regarding biosecurity and biosafety. In 2014 the administration of US President Barack Obama called for a “pause” on funding (and relevant research with existing US Government funding) of GOF experiments involving influenza, SARS, and MERS viruses in particular.

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Knowing the controversy over Gain-of-Function research, it doesn't surprise me that we (US Government) would fund it in a lab in somewhere like China as to try to reduce the risk of it coming here if it made it out of a lab.

Ethics of Gain of Function Research

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Not sure why the downvotes are raining down.

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The OT is filled with Fauci fanboys.

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You don't make a weapon that only works 1 out of 100 times.

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There’s always a problem with them. Needs a little tweaking to make it a little more virulent and not just get rid of the obese, chronically ill and the elderly.