Trump Orders Curb on Virus Research He Blames for Pandemic

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : 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.
51% : 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.
47% : During the 2010s, the National Institutes of Health funded bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute via the U.S.-based nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance -- a grant axed by Trump in 2020 during his first term, but later partially restored under President Joe Biden.
37% : Trump has long championed the theory that SARS-CoV-2 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology as a result of gain-of-function research -- an alternative to the theory that the virus spilled over naturally from wild animals to humans at a seafood market in the same city.
20% : President Donald Trump on Monday ordered new limitations on a form of biological research his administration says caused the Covid-19 pandemic through a lab leak in China.

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