President Donald Trump announced this series of measures on Monday, May 5, on Monday, May 5, a series of measures to restrict certain virology research that considers “dangerous” and accuses of being behind the Covid-19 pandemic.
Surrounded by representatives of several health agencies, Donald Trump has signed an executive decree aimed at “improving the safety of biological research.” Among the announced measures is the end of the US federal funds granted to certain research programs located abroad and including the “functions gain” research.
“A nightmare”
These works consist of the deliberate modification of pathogens. In Virology, they allow, for example, to study the evolution of viruses by artificially more virulent or transmitted, with the aim of preventing future pandemics and developing vaccines. But according to some specialists, accident risks are too large, for a low gain.
For the Trump administration, it is said that these practices are behind the recent world pandemic that has killed more than one million people in the United States, and millions of people worldwide.
“This nightmare is probably the result of some scientists who have manipulated mother nature in a laboratory with an exported technology in the United States,” said Marty Makary, new head of theAmerican Medicines Agency (FDA).
A time qualified as “conspirator”, this laboratory flight theory has recently gained popularity in the United States and now has the support of US authorities to several degrees of certainty. But, nevertheless, it is largely discussed by scientists.
Like the qualification or not of “search for a function gain” attributed to the work financed by US funds in Wuhan, the cradle of the Chinese city of the Covid-19 Pandemia. The measures announced on Monday explicitly mention China as a country in which this research can no longer be financed.
“There is no laboratory protected with leaks and this will prevent accidental leaks in the future and endanger humanity,” he insisted on the United States Minister of Health, Robert Kennedy Jr., insisted on X
The decree also requires the development of a strategy to “govern, limit and monitor” this type of research in the United States and the purpose of financing other types of research in countries considered without sufficient supervision.
It is part of the largest decisions of the new US government to remodel US scientific and health policy, particularly through mass cuts in research budgets and mass layoffs of scientists in federal agencies.
Source: BFM TV
