Tom Curtis may refer to: (wikipedia)
I don't question the need for someone to look into dangerous materials and make sure they are being handled appropriately.
If it was reported, it would be at a congressional hearing and they suspected the hearing would be private.
Everybody is horrified at what they can do, but the truth is the research quantities we're studying are quite modest. And if the building they're in got hit by a bomb or an airplane or a tornado or something like that.
If you want to learn how to take these viruses apart and put them back together ... and develop a vaccine against them, it really requires this kind of spacesuit laboratory.
That's a reasonable best estimate. It's a lot of money.
