“Senator Paul, you do not know what you’re talking about, quite frankly, and I want to say that officially,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said to Sen. Rand Paul during a Senate committee hearing about the coronavirus pandemic this week.
called “gain-of-function” “a controversial practice that involves enhancing a virus in a lab to try to anticipate future pandemics.”
During a previous hearing, Fauci said that the NIH “has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research” at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, theThe senator asked: “Dr. Fauci, knowing that it is a crime to lie to Congress, do you wish to retract your statement of May 11 where you claimed that the NIH never funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan?”
“Senator Paul, I have never lied before the Congress, and I do not retract that statement,” Fauci replied., said that Fauci was “dancing around this because you are trying to obscure responsibility for 4 million people dying around the world from a pandemic.”He went on to say, “You are implying that what we did was responsible for the deaths of individuals,” he said. “I totally resent that. And if anybody’s lying here, senator, it is you.
“It’s our position that we need to get to the bottom of this,” White House senior COVID-19 adviser Andy Slavitt said at the time.: “In latest clash over Wuhan lab, Fauci tells Sen. Rand Paul: ‘You do not know what you’re talking about.’”
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