Make one of them two strokes: reduce federal funding for foreigners. And undermine scientific research a little more. Surrounded by representatives of several Health agencies, including the Director of NIH (National Health Institutes), as well as his minister of Health Robert Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump signed an executive decree intended to “improve the safety and security of biological research”.
Among the measures announced is the end of American federal funding granted to certain research programs located abroad and including so -called “function gain” research.
These works consist of the deliberate modification of pathogens. In virology, they allow for example to study the evolution of viruses by making them artificially more virulent or transmitted. The objective is to prevent future pandemics and develop vaccines. But for some specialists, the risks of accident is too large, for a low profit.
Two major hypotheses on the origin of the covid
For the Trump administration, these practices have led to the Pandemic of Cavid. While the theory of a laboratory leak is still debated in the scientific community, the American president and his relatives consider as an established fact that the Sars-Cov-2 virus was born from such research funded, among other things by the United States and carried out by the Chinese Virology Institute of Wuhan, the cradle city of the pandemic.
Almost five and a half years after the appearance of SARS-COV-2, science is still unable to answer the question of how this microscopic crowned head virus was able to emerge in late 2019, killing seven million people around the world, including a million in the United States. But two major hypotheses are still on the table: either it appeared spontaneously in the wild, or it has escaped a laboratory.
“This nightmare is probably the result of a few scientists who have manipulated Mother Nature in a laboratory with an exported technology in the United States,” said Marty Makary, a new head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the American drug agency.
Kennedy Jr accuses Dr Anthony Fauci
Three weeks ago, the White House even transformed the old official information platform on the pandemic into a website dedicated to this theory. The site says that the virus “has a biological characteristic that is not found in nature”.
The measures announced on Monday explicitly mention China as a country in which this research “of function gain” can no longer be funded, among countries where supervision is subject to doubts.
“There is no laboratory that is sheltered from leaks – and this will prevent accidental leaks from happening in the future and endanger humanity,” insisted on X the Minister of Health Robert Kennedy Jr. A little later on Fox News, the anti -vax minister even accused Anthony Fauci, an infectiologist and the renowned American immunologist, who advised the White House From Ronald Reagan to Joe Biden, so Donald Trump during the Covid pandemic, to have “relaunched the race for organic arms” to which Richard Nixon had ended in 1969. He would have acted “under the pretext of developing vaccines, finally moving his experiences abroad, mainly in the Wuhan laboratory”.
