all on the most reliable 5g network. with no line activation fees or term contracts. saving you up to 60% a year. and it s only available to comcast business internet customers. so boost your bottom line by switching today. comcast business. powering possibilities. john: the federal government uses your taxpayer money to fund research that alters viruses to make them more dangerous, even more deadly. should the u.s. government be doing that? that s the question up for debate on capitol hill. called gain of function research. and most americans likely had not heard of it three years ago, but the technique was infamously used at the wuhan lab in china at the center of the covid-19 origin probe. rich, didn t the government also already have a funding ban for this type of research? it did, in 2014, lasted for
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said that officials compared notes over the theory that Covid-19 pandemic may have originated from a leak from a lab in Wuhan, calling for further investigations
A confrontation is brewing over the pandemic’s origin
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As the debate on the subject took on a serious turn in recent days with new intelligence details emerging about several researchers at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) falling ill in November 2019 and being hospitalized
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Last week, China and the US drew closer to another confrontation, with President Joe Biden ordering a detailed intelligence review on the origins of the covid pandemic. As the debate on the subject took on a serious turn in recent days with new intelligence details emerging about several researchers at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) falling ill in November 2019 and being hospitalized, Biden has asked the US intelligence community to prepare “a report on their most up-to-date analysis of the origins of covid-19, including whether it emerged from human contact with an infected animal or from a laboratory accident.