Medical testing on captive chimpanzees has halted:
>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/08/has-us-biomedical-research-chimpanzees-come-end
>FWS stated that all U.S. chimpanzees--including the more than 700 chimps used in research--would be classified as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Any labs that wished to continue invasive work on these animals would need to apply for an ESA permit, and permits would only be allowed for work that enhances the survival of the species and benefits chimpanzees in the wild.
>...
>Lanford says he’s not surprised that other labs also have not applied for permits. Any applications, he says, are likely to attract the attention of animal advocates, and it’s not clear whether FWS would grant the permit. “Public opinion is currently heavily influencing this process,” he says. “Nobody wants to be the first test case.”
Meanwhile, even *unintentional* human to chimp transmission of coronaviris strains has been documents:
>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6021434/
We should be using these beasts as test subjects RIGHT NOW.
Besides, they are pure evil, and surely would do the same (or worse) to us if they could.