--- type: Topic title: Biosafety and biosecurity description: "Laboratory biosafety levels, containment practices and lab incidents." tags: - topic - covid-19 document_count: 176 sources: - { id: baric_ti, resource: /sources/baric-ti.md, title: Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-23 } - { id: cbp_release, resource: /sources/cbp-release.md, title: CBP Release Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release" } - { id: diary_prequel, resource: /sources/diary-prequel.md, title: Diary Prequel Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-27 } - { id: fauci_diary, resource: /sources/fauci-diary.md, title: Tony's Diary Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-24 } - { id: fauci_intel, resource: /sources/fauci-intel.md, title: Fauci Intelligence Community Release, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-06-11 } - { id: gates, resource: /sources/gates.md, title: Gates Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-31 } - { id: monkeypox_release, resource: /sources/monkeypox-release.md, title: NIH Monkeypox Smuggling Release, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-06-05 } - { id: reading_room, resource: /sources/reading-room.md, title: Reading Room Production, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release" } - { id: slack_pm, resource: /sources/slack-pm.md, title: Slack / Private Message Drop, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release" } generated: { by: randpaul-corpus-pipeline/1.0, at: "2026-08-01T12:42:27Z" } status: stable --- Laboratory biosafety levels, containment practices and lab incidents. Tagged on **176** documents. # Principal voices * [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) - 52 documents * [Robert F. Garry](/people/robert-f-garry.md) - 16 documents * [Kristian G. Andersen](/people/kristian-g-andersen.md) - 11 documents * [Edward C. Holmes](/people/edward-c-holmes.md) - 7 documents * [Chase Crawford](/people/chase-crawford.md) - 6 documents * [Rajesh Ranganathan](/people/rajesh-ranganathan.md) - 6 documents * [Christine Sizemore](/people/christine-sizemore.md) - 4 documents * [Sara Selgrade](/people/sara-selgrade.md) - 3 documents * [Andrew Rambaut](/people/andrew-rambaut.md) - 2 documents * [Kathy Hudson](/people/kathy-hudson.md) - 2 documents * [Ralph S. Baric](/people/ralph-s-baric.md) - 2 documents * Thomas Inglesby - 2 documents * [Carole Heilman](/people/carole-heilman.md) - 1 documents * [Carole Hudgings](/people/carole-hudgings.md) - 1 documents * [Elizabeth Higgs](/people/elizabeth-higgs.md) - 1 documents # Statement timeline Attributed statements in chronological order. Each is quoted verbatim and cited to its page. * **2003-09-26** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "NIAID will be awarding 2 NBLs (BSL-4 labs) and 9 RBLs (BSL-3 labs) on Sept. 30." [^diary_prequel] * **2011-06-23** — Thomas Inglesby (asserts): "I wanted to invite you to speak at a meeting we are holding called: Ten Years After Anthrax: The Greatest Challenges Ahead for Biosecurity." [^gates] * **2011-06-23** — Thomas Inglesby (asserts): "In small part it will be to reflect on the state of US biosecurity at the 10 yr anniversary of the anthrax attacks." [^gates] * **2011-06-23** — Thomas Inglesby (asserts): "But for the most part it will be to look forward at the biosecurity policy agenda in the years ahead." [^gates] * **2011-06-23** — Thomas Inglesby (asserts): "We will ask leaders to think ambitiously about the future of biosecurity, and give their views regarding what needs to be done to make progress in the years ahead." [^gates] * **2012-02-16** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Redacted versus Unredacted: The impracticality of redacted versus unredacted manuscripts was clear to everyone at the Geneva meeting and the likelihood of the unredacted manuscripts ultimately reaching the internet were important factors in the consensus at…" [^diary_prequel] * **2012-04-12** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "I told him that that is the biggest difference from todfay when biodefense and biosecurity is a cottage interested with people (Ingesbly et al) and Agencies (DHS) who think about and work on this full time." [^diary_prequel] * **2014-07-13** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Tom has a significant problem in that they have been multiple lapses at the CDC with people not adhering to protocol in the experiment with a transfer of select agents such as anthrax, Brucella and influenza." [^diary_prequel] * **2014-07-13** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "He is under pressure to decrease the number of investigators throughout the country who are working with select agents." [^diary_prequel] * **2014-12-20** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Fc On Dec. 22, there was a mess-up at CDC since a worker took and Ebola specimen out of BSL-4 into BSL-2 without inactivating the specimen." [^diary_prequel] * **2020-02-15** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Also, discussed on the call the persistent problem of cruise ships in general, which could derail all polasn for containment since they scatter people from all over the world to all over the world." [^fauci_diary] * **2020-02-20** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Some disagreement that we had to sort out between ASPR (Kadlec) and CDC (Cetron/Redfield) regarding when to trigger the transition from containment to mitigation." [^fauci_diary] * **2020-03-02** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "We will need to move to mitigation + containment in Washington State, which has declared state of emergency. 89 cases in USA with more cases each day. 6 deaths in USA Deb Birx on board." [^fauci_diary] * **2020-06-11** — [Kristian G. Andersen](/people/kristian-g-andersen.md) (asserts): "All of this is done in BSL-3, so much (much!) less risk of exposure." [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-11** — [Kristian G. Andersen](/people/kristian-g-andersen.md) (asserts): "The work in Shi's lab is different - here they are taking bat CoVs and culturing them under BSL-2 in cell lines from different animals - to e.g., understand which ones can infect human cells and what type of mutations that occur inT/C may make them permissive." [^slack_pm] * **2020-08-29** — [Kristian G. Andersen](/people/kristian-g-andersen.md) (asserts): "Doing that type of work with a novel (bat) CoV would constitute a non-trivial risk for sure - she does not mention whether this isBSL-2 or BSL-3, but likely the former." [^slack_pm] * **2020-09-05** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Universities need to ensure students are tested, isolated and cared for on campus or in COVID designated areas to ensure containment and prevent spread both into local community and to hometowns 8." [^fauci_diary] * **2020-09-06** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Universities need to ensure students are tested, isolated and cared for on campus or in COVID designated areas to ensure containment and prevent spread both into local community and to hometowns 6." [^fauci_diary] * **2020-09-07** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Universities need to ensure students are tested, isolated and cared for on campus or in COVID designated areas to ensure containment and prevent spread both into local community and to hometowns. 8." [^fauci_diary] * **2020-09-11** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Universities need to ensure students are tested, isolated and cared for on campus or in COVID designated areas to ensure containment and prevent spread both into local community and to hometowns 9." [^fauci_diary] * **2020-09-14** — [Andrew Rambaut](/people/andrew-rambaut.md) (asserts): "Just saw this - ```In fact, a Chinese BSL-3 lab (the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre), which published a Nature article reporting a conflicting close phylogenetic relationship between SARS- 35 36 CoV-2 and ZC45/ZXC21 rather than with RaTG13 , was…" [^slack_pm] * **2021-01-29** — [Robert F. Garry](/people/robert-f-garry.md) (asserts): "Apparently they are off to interview and in studio PANEL:• Jason Yat Sen Li• Prof Mary-Louise McLaws - UNSW and advisor to the WHO• Prof Bates Gill - Professor with the Department of Security Studies at Macquarie University• Professor Raina MacIntyre -…" [^slack_pm] * **2021-02-09** — [Robert F. Garry](/people/robert-f-garry.md) (denies): "Relman, a microbiologist at Stanford University."Raina MacIntyre, professor of biosecurity at the University of New South Wales in Australia, was also surprised to see the idea of a lab accident ruled out so quickly." [^slack_pm] * **2021-03-05** — [Robert F. Garry](/people/robert-f-garry.md) (asserts): "Important to point out that what these people, including Alina, want to do is to SHUTDOWN virology research - stop looking for new viruses and close down all the BSL-3/4 labs." [^slack_pm] * **2021-03-05** — [Robert F. Garry](/people/robert-f-garry.md) (asserts): "Yet Alina would shut down BSL-4 and field workon all viruses in nature." [^slack_pm] # Matching terms High-confidence: `biosafety level`, `bsl-2`, `bsl-3`, `bsl-4`, `biosafety`, `biosecurity`, `containment`, `select agent` Supporting: `safety`, `protocol`, `lab practices`, `ppe`, `exposure`, `incident` # Sources [^baric_ti]: [baric_ti](/sources/baric-ti.md) [^cbp_release]: [cbp_release](/sources/cbp-release.md) [^diary_prequel]: [diary_prequel](/sources/diary-prequel.md) [^fauci_diary]: [fauci_diary](/sources/fauci-diary.md) [^fauci_intel]: [fauci_intel](/sources/fauci-intel.md) [^gates]: [gates](/sources/gates.md) [^monkeypox_release]: [monkeypox_release](/sources/monkeypox-release.md) [^reading_room]: [reading_room](/sources/reading-room.md) [^slack_pm]: [slack_pm](/sources/slack-pm.md)