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'''"Gain-of-function" research''' is the modification of naturally occurring viruses in order to make them more deadly and/or more contagious, especially in humans.
 
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Safety concerns lead to the banning of "Gain-of-function" research on coronaviruses in the US in 2014, but it "came roaring back under [[Trump]] and [[Fauci]]" in 2017{{cn}}. [[Marc Lipsitch]] commented that this sort of research had “done almost nothing to improve our preparedness for pandemics, yet... risked creating an accidental pandemic.”<ref>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html</ref>
 
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