Virology under the Microscope—a Call for Rational Discourse
2023
Felicia Goodrum | Anice C. Lowen | Seema Lakdawala | James Alwine | Arturo Casadevall | Michael J. Imperiale | Walter Atwood | Daphne Avgousti | Joel Baines | Bruce Banfield | Lawrence Banks | Sumita Bhaduri-McIntosh | Deepta Bhattacharya | Daniel Blanco-Melo | David Bloom | Adrianus Boon | Steeve Boulant | Curtis Brandt | Andrew Broadbent | Christopher Brooke | Craig Cameron | Samuel Campos | Patrizia Caposio | Gary Chan | Anna Cliffe | John Coffin | Kathleen Collins | Blossom Damania | Matthew Daugherty | Kari Debbink | James DeCaprio | Terence Dermody | Jimmy Dikeakos | Daniel DiMaio | Rhoel Dinglasan | W. Paul Duprex | Rebecca Dutch | Nels Elde | Michael Emerman | Lynn Enquist | Bentley Fane | Ana Fernandez-Sesma | Michelle Flenniken | Lori Frappier | Matthew Frieman | Klaus Frueh | Michaela Gack | Marta Gaglia | Tom Gallagher | Denise Galloway | Adolfo García-Sastre | Adam Geballe | Britt Glaunsinger | Stephen Goff | Alexander Greninger | Meaghan Hancock | Eva Harris | Nicholas Heaton | Mark Heise | Ekaterina Heldwein | Brenda Hogue | Stacy Horner | Edward Hutchinson | Joseph Hyser | William Jackson | Robert Kalejta | Jeremy Kamil | Stephanie Karst | Frank Kirchhoff | David Knipe | Timothy Kowalik | Michael Lagunoff | Laimonis Laimins | Ryan Langlois | Adam Lauring | Benhur Lee | David Leib | Shan-Lu Liu | Richard Longnecker | Carolina Lopez | Micah Luftig | Jennifer Lund | Balaji Manicassamy | Grant McFadden | Michael McIntosh | Andrew Mehle | W. Allen Miller | Ian Mohr | Cary Moody | Nathaniel Moorman | Anne Moscona | Bryan Mounce | Joshua Munger | Karl Münger | Eain Murphy | Mojgan Naghavi | Jay Nelson | Christopher Neufeldt | Janko Nikolich | Christine O'Connor | Akira Ono | Walter Orenstein | David Ornelles | Jing-hsiung Ou | John Parker | Colin Parrish | Andrew Pekosz | Philip Pellett | Julie Pfeiffer | Richard Plemper | Stephen Polyak | John Purdy | Dohun Pyeon | Miguel Quinones-Mateu | Rolf Renne | Charles Rice | John Schoggins | Richard Roller | Charles Russell | Rozanne Sandri-Goldin | Martin Sapp | Luis Schang | Scott Schmid | Stacey Schultz-Cherry | Bert Semler | Thomas Shenk | Guido Silvestri | Viviana Simon | Gregory Smith | Jason Smith | Katherine Spindler | Megan Stanifer | Kanta Subbarao | Wesley Sundquist | Mehul Suthar | Troy Sutton | Andrew Tai | Vera Tarakanova | Benjamin tenOever | Scott Tibbetts | Stephen Tompkins | Zsolt Toth | Koenraad van Doorslaer | Marco Vignuzzi | Nicholas Wallace | Derek Walsh | Michael Weekes | Jason Weinberg | Matthew Weitzman | Sandra Weller | Sean Whelan | Elizabeth White | Bryan Williams | Christiane Wobus | Scott Wong | Andrew Yurochko
ABSTRACT Viruses have brought humanity many challenges: respiratory infection, cancer, neurological impairment and immunosuppression to name a few. Virology research over the last 60+ years has responded to reduce this disease burden with vaccines and antivirals. Despite this long history, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented attention to the field of virology. Some of this attention is focused on concern about the safe conduct of research with human pathogens. A small but vocal group of individuals has seized upon these concerns – conflating legitimate questions about safely conducting virus-related research with uncertainties over the origins of SARS-CoV-2. The result has fueled public confusion and, in many instances, ill-informed condemnation of virology. With this article, we seek to promote a return to rational discourse. We explain the use of gain-of-function approaches in science, discuss the possible origins of SARS-CoV-2 and outline current regulatory structures that provide oversight for virological research in the United States. By offering our expertise, we – a broad group of working virologists – seek to aid policy makers in navigating these controversial issues. Balanced, evidence-based discourse is essential to addressing public concern while maintaining and expanding much-needed research in virology.
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