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"To others, it was the perfect example of the unnecessary dangers of gain-of-function science. “The only impact of this work is the creation, in a lab, of a new, non-natural risk,” the Rutgers microbiologist Richard Ebright, a longtime critic of such research,"

Ebbright summarizes the risk. The purpose of the gain in function research was to develop vaccines and therapeutics against viruses which were constantly mutating naturally. The fallacy is, as far as I can tell, no vaccines or therapeutics were studied or developed. I have not been able to find any funding allocated for treatment of these viral threats which makes the risks of studying these viruses untenable.

While Baric,Daszak and Yi were facilitating the gain in function research no one seemed to limit the risks in studying the viruses in the Chinese level 2 BSL lab which the article stated had the infection control precautions of a dental office.

Senator Paul was right in shining a light on these practices.

GLTA Farrell




Nice summary article thanks for posting