Sen. Marshall Calls For Halt of Gain-of-Function Studies, Funding Chinese Research

It has been four years since patients sickened with unexplained pneumonia started appearing at hospitals in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. But U.S. policymakers are still investigating how COVID-19 emerged in the country. To keep it from happening again, the United States needs to suspend gain-of-function research and stop federal dollars from flowing into studies in China, Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kans.) says. “I think number one is we have to have a moratorium on gain of function research. I don’t see the benefits outweigh the risks at this point in time,” Mr. Marshall said in a Thursday interview with NTD’s Capital Report....