President Trump recently issued an executive order this week that would prohibit federal funding for potentially dangerous life science research, such as gain of function research in adversarial countries of concern. For example, China, which is home of the Wuhan Institute of virology and the SARS CoV2 coronavirus that killed people around the world, closed schools, cost this government at least $5 trillion and left a wake of devastation behind it. Sometimes small things can cause big problems, and this is certainly a case where it did. I applaud the administration for these efforts. (00:33–00:56)
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Asserts that the SARS CoV2 coronavirus cost the U.S. government at least $5 trillion.
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