People have been trying to put guardrails around it for generations, and it hasn't worked. And clearly, COVID 19 pandemic and many other global pandemics that we have have come from gain of function research. The RSV epidemic that we have that is the biggest killer of kids in this country today came from these kind of experiments. The Lyme disease almost certainly came from this kind of research. And the scientists who you say are experts are making the argument that this is necessary for pandemic response. (04:06–04:16)
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Claims that the current RSV epidemic, a leading cause of child mortality in the U.S., resulted from gain-of-function experiments.
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