Tuesday, during an appearance on FNC\u2019s \u201cFox & Friends,\u201d Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) discussed his bill sanctioning Chinese health officials for not cooperating in determining the origins of the COVID-19 virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Florida Republican lawmaker warned the next pandemic could be \u201cfar worse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWell, what it says is within 90 days of the bill passing, if China hasn\u2019t allowed for a full, clear, transparent investigation as to how this thing started, we start sanctioning people involved in the sciences over there, people involved in this research, the institutions involved in this research,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019d cut off any and all federal funding for any research that\u2019s gain of function or anything like it in conjunction with any of these agencies over there.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLook, we already know enough about what happened in China, I think, to tell you they\u2019ve done something wrong, which is they haven\u2019t allowed the world to fully understand how this thing began, and they\u2019ve covered it up,\u201d Rubio continued. \u201cNow, what it actually leads to \u2014 that\u2019s what the world needs to know because the next one could be far worse than this. I mean, coronavirus is terrible. COVID has been terrible. It has killed people. You\u2019ve seen what it\u2019s done to our society and our country, and the world. The next one could be much deadlier, much more disruptive. We \u2014 people forget all this research that China does is still going on right now. They\u2019re doing \u2014 as we speak, they\u2019re doing it today. It doesn\u2019t stop. This continues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rubio warned that without an accountability mechanism, China could be developing another pandemic-causing virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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