Fauci lied and people died.
White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci is not being fully forthcoming about links between the federal agency he directs and the Wuhan, China, lab from which COVID-19 may have originated, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Tuesday.
Fauci and Paul had butted heads earlier in the day during a Senate committee hearing, during which Fauci forcefully denied that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) funded so-called “gain of function” research by the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
That’s not true, Paul told “Fox News Primetime.”
“There’s a famous scientist in the Wuhan lab, her name is Dr. Shi [Zhengli], and she published a paper a couple years ago which has been reviewed by MIT, and says that it’s a gain-of-function research,” Paul said. “But in the byline, she has to list the sponsors. She lists Dr. Fauci and the NIAID as a sponsor of her research, which everybody acknowledges [is] gain-of-function research, juicing up these superviruses. So, I don’t know how you get around this.”
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 11: U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) questions Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing to discuss the ongoing federal response to COVID-19 on May 11, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images)