Dr. Robert Redfield, the former director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told Newsmax on Wednesday that he fully supports President Donald Trump’s moratorium on gain-of-function research, calling the funding freeze for such experiments “very important.”
On Monday, Trump signed an executive order aimed at curbing gain-of-function research — which he blames for creating the COVID-19 pandemic — by halting funding to countries where such research takes place. The president’s order named China as an example of a “country of concern.”
“I did an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal back in 2021, really calling on our government to put a moratorium on it,” Redfield said on “Wake Up America.” “There’s really no scientific advantage for doing this type of research and there’s a real downside in terms of creating pathogens that may cause problems that we don’t have countermeasures [for], like the COVID-19 virus, which I do believe was a direct consequence of gain-of-function research.”
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