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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday (May 5) restricting federal funding for controversial gain-of-function research.
Gain-of-function research involves experimenting with viruses and other pathogens to discover how infections could be transmitted, but they could also have the potential to trigger a pandemic unless securely monitored.
White House Secretary Will Scharf said, " Many people believe that gain of function research was one of the key causes of the Covid pandemic, that struck us in in the last decade."
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