[BureaucratusMaximus]

I wanna know who authorized this: https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/nih-lifts-funding-pause-gain-function-research

Note the date, December 19, 2017.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Signed by Francis Collins, as director of NIH. This shows that the NIH re-started funding of gain-of-function research under the outgoing Obama administration, one month before the Trump inauguration.

"...Marc Lipsitch, an epidemiologist at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, told Nature journal that gain-of-function experiments 'have done almost nothing to improve our preparedness for pandemics - yet they risked creating an accidental pandemic'."

:US lifts ban on lethal virus experiments despite security risks," Published 20 December 2017.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42426548

And funding of the Wuhan lab continues under the federal government today.