“The suspicion has been reinforced by the fact that scientists at Wuhan University are known to have worked as gain experiments for molecular mechanisms related to bat viruses that are adapted to human infection, and the outbreak originated in Wuhan,” Fauci wrote, according to a screenshot of the newly unredacted email shared via the RealClearPolitics reporter at the White House, Philip Wegmann.
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“This directly contradicts everything he said at my committee hearing, surely denying that they funded any workplace gains, and that is surely a lie. That’s why I sent an official referral to the Department of Justice,” Paul wrote on “X,” formerly known as Twitter, on Saturday.
In July 2021, Paul reminded Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and medical adviser to the president, that lying to Congress is a federal crime, suggesting that the NIAID director had done so regarding COVID-19 Gain of Function conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
Dr. Anthony Fauci answers questions at a Senate hearing on the federal response to COVID-19 on January 11, 2022 in Washington, D. C. (Greg Nash/Pool/Getty Images)
In a heated exchange, Fauci insisted he had “never lied to Congress” in previous testimony in May and told Paul he “doesn’t know what he’s talking about. “Fauci further denied that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded gain-of-function research, even though Paul cited a newspaper article titled “Discovery of a gene pool of coronaviruses linked to Bat SARS. “
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Paul, a graduate of Duke University School of Medicine and a practicing physician before being elected to Congress, noted how the paper’s author accredits the NIH and lists the actual amount of grants awarded through the NIH. The writer took two bat coronavirus spike genes and combined them with a SAR-attached backbone to create new viruses that were discovered in nature, and then the lab-created viruses were shown to mirror in humans, Paul said at the July congressional hearing.
“Viruses that in nature only infect animals have been manipulated in the Wuhan lab to get the service of infecting humans,” he said.
Fauci said the document Paul was referring to “was judged through a qualified body of workers from top to bottom of the chain as not a task gain. “
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“Let’s read the NIH definition of ‘service gain,'” Paul said. “This is his definition that he wrote. She says that “scientific studies that increase transmissibility in mammals is a service gain. “They took animal viruses that only happens in animals and their transmissibility to humans is higher. How can you say that it is not a service gain?millions of other people who are dying around the world due to a pandemic. “
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