“A million Americans died from COVID,” said Paul during a brief statement on the bill before the vote. “We’ll never know whether it came from nature or from a lab. Virtually every scientist now believes that it’s possible that it could have come from the lab. Some think it unlikely, but almost every scientist thinks that it’s a possibility.”
According to Bryce Nickels, Professor of Genetics at Rutgers University and co-founder of Biosafety Now, “The overwhelming bipartisan support for this bill sends a clear message: the era of unchecked risky research is coming to an end.”