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.
“Any nation that engages in this research endangers their own population, as well as the world, as we saw during the COVID pandemic,“ added Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health.
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.
During the 2010s, the National Institutes of Health funded bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute via the US-based nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance -- a grant axed by Trump in 2020 during his first term, but later partially restored under president Joe Biden.
Trump’s order names China as an example of a “country of concern” where such research should not be supported.
It further calls for the development of a strategy to “govern, limit, and track dangerous gain-of-function research across the United States that occurs without federal funding” -- though the extent of the government’s control over non-federal research is unclear, and the order also calls for new legislation to fill any gaps.
Trump's executive order comes amid broader efforts by his administration to reshape American science and health policy, including mass firings to government scientists and steep slashes to research budgets.
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