According to a newly revealed email, Dr. Anthony Fauci previously confirmed that it was a “fact” that scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were known to be performing “gain-of-function experiments” on bat viruses.
Then why did he lie about it?
The email was disclosed by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on February 1, 2020. The email was sent to Robert Kadlec (then assistant secretary of Health and Human Services), Lawrence Kerr (then director of the HHS’s Office of Pandemics and Emerging Threats), Brian Harrison (HHS chief of staff), and Garrett Grigsby (then director of the HHS’s Office of Global Affairs).
Fauci began the email by mentioning a meeting with Jeremy Farrar, the director of the Wellcome Trust, a powerful global charity organization dedicated to medical research. The meeting also featured “highly credible scientists” and then-director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins.
According to Fauci, the researchers were “concerned about the fact that upon viewing the sequences of several isolates of the nCoV, there were mutations in the virus that would be most unusual to have evolved naturally in the bats and that there was a suspicion that this mutation was intentionally inserted.”
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VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL“The suspicion was heightened by the fact that scientists in Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments to determine the molecular mechanisms associated with bat viruses adapting to human infection, and the outbreak originated in Wuhan,” Fauci said.
“Upon considerable discussion, some of the scientists felt more strongly about this possibility, but two others felt differently,” said Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “They felt that it was entirely conceivable that this could have evolved naturally even though these mutations have never been seen in a bat virus before.”
Fauci went on, “The reasons for each side of the argument are too complicated to bother you with.”
Former President Joe Biden‘s main medical adviser concluded that the Wuhan lab-leak idea should be investigated by a large “internationally credible organization,” namely the World Health Organization (WHO). Fauci stated that Farrar and Collins would contact WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Again, why did Fauci lie about it to the American people? Who got to him?
“They pass no judgment at all at this point and feel that the group’s mandate should be: ‘What are the evolutionary origins of 2019-nCov, important for future risk assessment and understanding of animal/human coronaviruses.'” Fauci stated.
“In this way, there is no assumption of foul play or guilt on anyone’s part and merely an intense scientific look at the evolutionary origins of this virus. Where that leads remains to be seen.” Fauci stated. “Where that leads remains to be seen.”
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) reacted to Fauci’s revealed email, saying, “In case you needed any more proof Fauci orchestrated a cover-up… Now ask yourself why…”
Paul has frequently battled with Fauci over NIH-funded gain-of-function investigations at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. During a Senate hearing, Paul described what was done at Wuhan, to which anyone with a triple-digit IQ would conclude was gain-of-function research, and Fauci argued that it was not and that Rand Paul, a medical doctor himself, didn’t know what he was talking about.
During a hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on the pandemic response in May 2021, Fauci stated, “Sen. Paul, with all due respect, you are entirely, entirely and completely incorrect. The NIH has not ever, and does not now, fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute.”
But they did.
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Rogin sent out his tweet after the exchange between Paul and Fauci where the senator from Kentucky where Paul was grilling Fauci for constantly denying that NIH funded fain of function research at Wuhan.
“And yet, gain-of-function research was done entirely in the Wuhan Institute, and was funded by the NIH,” Paul said, reading from a Wuhan Virology paper titled, “Discovery of a Rich Gene Pool of Bat SARS-Related Coronaviruses”
Paul then went on and detailed the claims made in the paper:
“In this paper … she credits the NIH and lists the actual number of the grant that she was given by the NIH. In this paper, she took two bat coronavirus genes, spiked genes, and combined them with a SARS-related backbone to create new viruses that are not found in nature.”
Hey guys, @RandPaul was right and Fauci was wrong. The NIH was funding gain of function research in Wuhan but NIH pretended it didn't meet their "gain of function" definition to avoid their own oversight mechanism. SorryNotSorry if that doesn't fit your favorite narrative.
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) July 20, 2021
During a Senate Health Committee hearing on the federal government’s COVID-19 response in July 2021, Paul confronted Fauci, saying, “Dr. Fauci, as you are aware, it is a crime to lie to Congress. On your last trip to our committee on May 11, you stated that the NIH ‘has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.'”
Dr. Shi, a bat coronavirus expert from the Wuhan lab, and the EcoHealth Alliance, which had received money from the National Institutes of Health, were cited by Paul.
“And yet, gain-of-function research was done entirely in the Wuhan Institute by Dr. Shi and was funded by the NIH.” Paul noted.
“Sen. Paul,” Fauci said, “I have never lied before the Congress, and I do not retract that statement.”
Throughout the pandemic, Fauci has promoted the zoonotic origin explanation, denying the prospect of a lab leak as a “conspiracy theory.”
Kristian Andersen, a virologist at Scripps Department of Immunology and Microbiology, emailed Fauci in January 2020, stating that he and three other scientists “all find the genome inconsistent with evolutionary theory” of the coronavirus’s genesis.
A group of experts wrote a letter in March 2020 titled “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2.” The letter, which criticized “conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin,” was authorized and frequently mentioned by Fauci, and the document claimed, “We do not believe any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.”
The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic declared this week that the letter was a “cover-up” and that embracing the lab-leak explanation would bring “unnecessary harm to science in general and science in China in particular.”
According to leaked government emails, health authorities at the NIH and NIAID voiced alarm over gain-of-function research at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2016.
Now, think about all the people who died from COVID-19 and wonder how many died thanks to Fauci’s lies and cover-ups for the Communist Chinese Party. He retired from the government scot-free and with a giant pension that you and I are paying for.
