# CORVID-19 research delayed due to Trump ban on fetal tissue research **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 19, 2020, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corvid-19-research-delayed-due-to-trump-ban-on-fetal-tissue-research/849849 "2020-03-19T23:36:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corvid-19-research-delayed-due-to-trump-ban-on-fetal-tissue-research/849849/1 "2020-03-19T23:36:01Z")
[Story here](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/19/21186743/coronavirus-treatment-research-delay-trump-fetal-tissue-ban) > [@](#): > > According to a report by the Washington Post’s Amy Goldstein, Kim Hasenkrug, an immunologist at the National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana, wants to test potential treatments for Covid-19 in mice with humanized lungs. But as the Post first reported, the work is being held up by officials at the Department of Health and Human Services due to a 2019 ban on NIH scientists using donated fetal tissue from abortions in their research. Throw another log on the woodpile of the Trump Party doing everything possible to make this situation worse. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corvid-19-research-delayed-due-to-trump-ban-on-fetal-tissue-research/849849/2 "2020-03-19T23:47:59Z")
Don’t crow too loudly … ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corvid-19-research-delayed-due-to-trump-ban-on-fetal-tissue-research/849849/3 "2020-03-20T01:10:07Z")
> [@Tatterdemalion](#): > > Don’t crow too loudly … Damn you for beating me to the pun. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corvid-19-research-delayed-due-to-trump-ban-on-fetal-tissue-research/849849/4 "2020-03-20T02:21:38Z")
😉 ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corvid-19-research-delayed-due-to-trump-ban-on-fetal-tissue-research/849849/5 "2020-03-20T05:57:54Z")
Can someone explain the pun? Maybe I’ve been out of the country too long, but I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corvid-19-research-delayed-due-to-trump-ban-on-fetal-tissue-research/849849/6 "2020-03-20T07:58:40Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Can someone explain the pun? Maybe I’ve been out of the country too long, but I don’t get it. There’s a typo in the thread title … “corvids” are crows. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corvid-19-research-delayed-due-to-trump-ban-on-fetal-tissue-research/849849/7 "2020-03-20T09:04:57Z")
Because it what you really want is to run experiments on mouse/human hybrids, every disaster is a opportunity. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corvid-19-research-delayed-due-to-trump-ban-on-fetal-tissue-research/849849/8 "2020-03-20T11:54:30Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > Because it what you really want is to run experiments on mouse/human hybrids, every disaster is a opportunity. Yeah, it’s an opportunity to end the disaster, which evidently you have no interest in. And we can’t use every tool at our disposal because some people insist on forcing women to remain pregnant against their will. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corvid-19-research-delayed-due-to-trump-ban-on-fetal-tissue-research/849849/9 "2020-03-20T11:55:35Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > There’s a typo in the thread title … “corvids” are crows. :smack: get used to it, I don’t see myself ever catching myself before I post this. In my mind this will always be the “crow flu”. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corvid-19-research-delayed-due-to-trump-ban-on-fetal-tissue-research/849849/10 "2020-03-20T12:17:21Z")
Yeah. CORVID just _sounds_ better and would still be an appropriate shortening of CORonaVIrus. But I can understand why they don’t call it that so people wouldn’t associate it with birds. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corvid-19-research-delayed-due-to-trump-ban-on-fetal-tissue-research/849849/11 "2020-03-20T16:13:04Z")
Please note that I already posted this delightful malapropism in the Coronacoinage thread! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corvid-19-research-delayed-due-to-trump-ban-on-fetal-tissue-research/849849/12 "2020-03-20T16:23:30Z")
You’re raven to much about a mynah typo. You’re all a bunch of magpies. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corvid-19-research-delayed-due-to-trump-ban-on-fetal-tissue-research/849849/13 "2020-03-20T17:14:55Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > Throw another log on the woodpile of the Trump Party doing everything possible to make this situation worse. **Moderator Note** Some people seem not to be reading the forum description or rules: > [@](#): > > This forum is about anything related to the Coronavirus (COVID-19). **Keep politics and debates out of this forum.** Great Debates and Elections may be used for those threads and posts. Bolding mine. NO POLITICS. Since I don’t have the impression you wish to debate anything, let’s move this to the Pit. As a punishment, I am not fixing your thread title.😉 Colibri Quarantine Zone Moderator