Watchdog faults HHS oversight of research on possible pandemic pathogens

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The federal health department's framework for monitoring high-risk research on viruses and other agents that can cause pandemics doesn't meet key criteria for effective oversight, aThe Government Accountability Office found HHS has an unclear policy for reviewing and approving research involving pathogens that are altered to make them more transmissible or deadly — and that other policy gaps may allow the research to occur without appropriate oversight.

The report faults HHS for not fleshing out what work "reasonably anticipated to create, transfer, or use enhanced potential pandemic pathogens" under a 2017 framework should be referred for extra reviews of risks and benefits.Don't forget:

Given the timing of what's covered in the report, it would appear DJT's administration is about to take as much of a hit as JRB's, possibly more.

Mentally compromised Congress persons in charge of oversight. Why worry? (I couldn’t use the I word).

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