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Oops! NIH Did Too Fund Gain-of-Function Research

  • October 24, 2021

In an about-face that led U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., to tweet “’I told you so’ doesn’t begin to cover it,” the National Institutes of Health issued a letter to U.S. Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., admitting that the NIH had indeed funded gain-of-function (GOF) research conducted by NIH’s grant recipient EcoHealth. The admission is important because of emerging evidence that GOF experiments may have triggered the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Doggedly, the NIH director, Dr....