If you ask <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fauci" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Anthony Fauci</a>, he was a humble public servant who did the best he could to navigate the country through a once-in-a-generation pandemic, and he — as the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-brags-i-represent-science-rand-paul-blasts-absolute-hubris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personification of science itself</a> — saved lives during COVID. When you ask if he deserves any culpability for any negative consequences as a result of pandemic policies, well, that&#8217;s a different story.
In a clip released Friday night, CNN&#8217;s Christiane Amanpour asked Fauci, &#8220;But I want to know what you think — you and the community got wrong. Was the closing of schools too draconian? How much of the delay did the fact that nobody fully understood the asymptomatic spread of this, nobody figured out it could actually bust through certain vaccine levels as well. What are the real takeaways, real lessons for public health?&#8221;
&#8220;I think we have to get away from the blame game because so many of the things you mentioned were unknowns at the time,&#8221; Fauci responded, before bloviating about &#8220;Monday morning quarterbacking.&#8221;
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“We have to get away from the blame game,” says Dr. Anthony Fauci. Shutdowns were necessary, he adds, but some “schools stayed closed far too long.”
That said, he says the school where his daughter taught shut down for two weeks and “they didn’t do too badly.” <a href="https://t.co/DlPnWShomj">pic.twitter.com/DlPnWShomj</a>
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Fauci, for some reason, is on a bit of a media blitz, in addition to his CNN interview. From his comment, it is clear that he wants to be remembered as a selfless hero who gave his time and suggestions to the president — without any real power to enact lockdowns.
&#8220;I gave a public-health recommendation that echoed the CDC’s recommendation, and people made a decision based on that. But I never criticized the people who had to make the decisions one way or the other,&#8221; Fauci said to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/24/magazine/dr-fauci-pandemic.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> in a recent interview.
While it is technically true that he had no real power in terms of shutting anything down, Fauci was perceived as the go-to &#8220;expert&#8221; on COVID whom the president, as well as other politicians, depended upon for advice. Should the president have used his judgment to ignore Fauci&#8217;s guidance, as some states did? Of course. Is Fauci presenting his role in the pandemic accurately? Not even close.
In fact, Fauci effectively <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/us/politics/coronavirus-fauci-senate-testimony.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> elected officials they would be responsible for &#8220;needless suffering and death&#8221; if they re-opened too quickly.
Readers should also keep in mind that Fauci wants to take credit for the COVID vaccine and the quickness with which it was released. Yet throughout 2020, Fauci cast doubt on Operation Warp Speed.
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&#8220;The one thing that you would not want to see with a vaccine is getting an EUA before you have a signal of efficacy,&#8221;  Fauci <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/24/fauci-says-rushing-out-a-vaccine-could-jeopardize-testing-of-others.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in August 2020. &#8220;One of the potential dangers if you prematurely let a vaccine out is that it would make it difficult, if not impossible, for the other vaccines to enroll people in their trial.&#8221;
Now, though, he says that he made the decision in January 2020 to push the vaccine at breakneck speed.
Fauci <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/03/29/fauci-says-covid-19-vaccines-are-best-decision-ive-ever-made/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told CNN</a> in 2021,&#8221;&#8230;that the decision we made on January the 10th – to go all out and develop a vaccine – may have been the best decision that I’ve ever made with regard to an intervention as director of the institute.&#8221;
Of course, Americans now know that medical experts have since warned that some people who took the vaccine have a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/covid-vaccine-brings-higher-heart-risk-little-benefit-to-young-men-medical-expert-warns">higher risk</a> of adverse side effects. We also know that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/latest-evidence-lockdowns-were-a-disaster-child-shootings-skyrocketed-in-four-liberal-cities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">side effects of lockdowns</a> — rising mental health crises, drug addictions, domestic violence, low-quality education, and more social decay — were arguably worse than the disease.
Fauci, though, doesn&#8217;t want to focus on any of that. Perhaps he doesn&#8217;t want to concentrate on what went wrong because in order to do that, he would have to admit that politicians should not be making edicts and decrees that keep Americans in their homes and kids out of school and trampling freedom, based on ever-changing data.
If we were to look at the pandemic from all angles, Fauci would have to give credit to states like Georgia, Florida, and elsewhere for handling the pandemic in arguably better ways than those like New York and California which followed his guidance.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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A virus breaking out of a lab does not necessarily constitute a &#8220;lab leak,&#8221; Dr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anthony-fauci" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthony Fauci</a> contended in his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-blames-attacks-on-china-not-china-for-covid-origins-impasse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">latest argument</a> in favor of the natural origins theory for COVID.
In a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/24/magazine/dr-fauci-pandemic.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur" target="_blank" rel="noopener">newly published interview</a> with The New York Times, Fauci entertained the notion that COVID did emerge from a lab in Wuhan, China, while making the case that such a scenario would affirm his preferred theory of a &#8220;natural occurrence,&#8221; perhaps at a nearby wet market.
&#8220;If it’s not an engineered virus, what actually leaked from the lab?&#8221; Fauci said. &#8220;If it wasn’t an engineered virus, somebody went out into the field, got infected, came back to the lab and then spread it out to other people. That ain’t a lab leak, strictly speaking. That’s a natural occurrence.&#8221;
Fauci, a longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who has drawn <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/see-it-jim-jordan-goes-on-tear-against-dr-anthony-fauci-over-covid-origins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scrutiny over federal funding</a> for bat coronavirus research with ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, premised his hypothetical on an assertion about intelligence assessing the origins of the pandemic. &#8220;All of the intelligence groups agree that this was not an engineered virus,&#8221; he said.
The comments elicited swift pushback on social media.
&#8220;Fauci lies even when the facts are in full view and the lies are obvious. He has no shame, and he has no decency,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1650883244588511235" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> Richard Ebright, a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/science/covid-lab-leak-burr-report.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">molecular biologist</a> at Rutgers University.
Ebright was reacting to Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin, who pointed out Fauci&#8217;s comments don&#8217;t square with <a href="https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/reports-publications-2021/item/2263-declassified-assessment-on-covid-19-origins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a declassified report</a> that was released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) in 2021.
&#8220;Fauci wrongly says all intel agencies &#8216;agree that this was not an engineered virus.&#8217; [ODNI] assessment says &#8216;most&#8217; assess [with] low confidence &#8216;probably&#8217; not engineered,&#8221; Rogin <a href="https://twitter.com/joshrogin/status/1650876864234151936" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>. &#8220;Fauci also wrongly says, even if it escaped the lab, &#8216;That ain’t a lab leak.&#8217; What?!&#8221;
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In recent months, news broke that fresh <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-intel-prompts-energy-dept-to-assess-covid-likely-leaked-from-wuhan-lab-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intelligence led the Energy Department</a> to assess with &#8220;low confidence&#8221; that the health crisis likely began with a lab leak. Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/covid-origins-part-2-hearing-wrap-up-intelligence-community-officials-provide-further-evidence-that-covid-19-originated-in-a-wuhan-lab/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified to Congress</a> last week that &#8220;a lab leak is the only explanation credibly supported by our intelligence, by science, and by common sense.&#8221;
Still, the White House declared in February there was no <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-rejects-u-s-assertion-that-covid-originated-from-lab-leak-fe15df0c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;consensus&#8221;</a> within the U.S. government about how the COVID pandemic began.
China rejects the lab leak theory, but reports about <a href="https://apnews.com/article/china-covid-origins-lab-leak-bc0a2eda898c22219e57921ac700d4ec" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beijing&#8217;s refusal to fully cooperate</a> with COVID inquiries underscore continued disagreement within the scientific community about how the virus could have <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8337" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jumped from animals to humans</a>.
Whatever the origin of the COVID pandemic may be, Fauci said &#8220;we should be strengthening whatever it takes to prevent both — to prevent a new natural occurrence or a new lab leak.&#8221;
&#8220;If it’s a natural occurrence, for goodness’ sake, natural occurrences occur all the time. We should have been doing something about that,&#8221; Fauci said. &#8220;If it’s a lab leak, then we really should have been much, much more attentive to protocols and training and restrictions.&#8221;

Fauci Spins Yarn About How Alleged COVID Lab Outbreak ‘Ain’t A Lab Leak’

Fauci Spins Yarn About How Alleged COVID Lab Outbreak 'Ain’t A Lab Leak'

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Superstar Megan Thee Stallion stepped out to throw the opening pitch in her hometown of Houston on Thursday, and while it wasn&#8217;t a strike, it was better than many other celebrities&#8217; attempts — namely Dr. Anthony Fauci&#8217;s.
In a clip from <a href="https://twitter.com/espn/status/1641579657329012737?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ESPN</a>, the 28-year-old rapper appeared at Minute Maid Park in Texas to throw out the ceremonial pitch for the Houston Astros opening game against the Chicago White Sox.
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Megan Thee Stallion throws out the first pitch in her hometown 🤩
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The &#8220;Savage&#8221; hitmaker walked out to the pitcher&#8217;s mound all decked out in white and wearing an Astros jersey. She first smiled and posed for the camera before taking a few steps toward home plate and throwing the baseball.
The rapper&#8217;s pitch definitely was long enough and made it to home plate, but it was just a bit outside the batter&#8217;s box. However, it wasn&#8217;t nearly as bad as some other attempts made by famous people.
In 2020, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-dr-fauci-throws-disastrous-first-pitch-at-mlb-game-players-kneel-for-black-lives-matter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fauci</a> stepped out while donning a mask and attempted to throw out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals game against the New York Yankees to kick off MLB&#8217;s abbreviated season during the height of the COVID pandemic.
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To say it was bad would be putting it mildly, as Fauci&#8217;s pitch ended up nowhere close to home plate.
Another star who is known for scoring top hits but not necessarily his baseball skills would have to be rapper 50 Cent, who had the honor in 2014 of throwing out the ceremonial pitch at Citi Field for the New York Mets.
The rapper, born Curtis Jackson, took to the pitcher&#8217;s mound and threw his arm back in an attempt to get the ball to home plate. However, things didn&#8217;t go as planned, and, as they say, the ball was &#8220;just a bit outside&#8221; the batter&#8217;s box.
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One celebrity who is probably the gold standard for throwing out ceremonial first pitches would have to be former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/flashback-george-w-bush-throws-out-first-pitch-amanda-prestigiacomo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George W. Bush</a>. After the Islamic terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, then-President Bush took the mound donning a FDNY jacket in Game 3 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium in New York City.
It is fair to say he nailed it, as he threw that ball right across home plate and got the strike. The crowd roared, and it was a tremendous morale boost to a country that was in desperate need of one following the deaths of so many Americans.

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WATCH: Megan Thee Stallion’s Opening Day Pitch No Strike, But Better Than Fauci’s

WATCH: Megan Thee Stallion's Opening Day Pitch No Strike, But Better Than Fauci's

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Way back in 1998, internet media pioneer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/matt-drudge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Drudge</a> told a room full of reporters, &#8220;You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.&#8221;
It was probably the truest statement ever made in U.S. politics. Americans were reminded of its wisdom yet again after clips from the new PBS documentary &#8220;American Masters: Dr. Tony Fauci&#8221; showed the face of the pandemic, Fauci, getting blasted by &#8220;ordinary&#8221; citizens in one of the roughest, toughest parts of the nation&#8217;s capital over his claims about the COVID vaccine and the pandemic itself.
In the summer of 2021, Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser and Fauci went door-to-door in Southeast D.C. trying to evangelize the residents into becoming true believers in the COVID vaccine. The evidence indicates that the pair got more than they bargained for.
A man and woman speaking in the documentary clips getting the most attention have been retroactively proven right on just about every point that they raised to the two &#8220;experts.&#8221;
&#8220;People in America are not settled with the information given, so I&#8217;m not going to be lining up taking a shot on a vaccination for something that wasn&#8217;t clear in the first place,&#8221; the unidentified man said.
He even questioned how a vaccine could be trusted when it was created at such blazing speed.
&#8220;And then you all take a shot in miraculous time. It takes years to create a vaccine,&#8221; he continued.
&#8220;Nine months is definitely not enough for nobody to be taking no vaccination that you all came up with,&#8221; he argued.
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Bowser meekly defended the vaccination by saying, &#8220;The only reason I&#8217;m talking to you right now, as close as we are, is that I&#8217;ve been vaccinated. But if thousands of people like you don&#8217;t get vaccinated, you&#8217;re going to let this virus continue to percolate in this country and in this world.&#8221;
The man would not budge.
&#8220;Something like the common flu then, right?&#8221; the man interjected.
After some back and forth, with Fauci arguing that COVID is way more dangerous than the flu, Bowser appeared to understand that she had been defeated.
&#8220;You gonna pass?&#8221; she asked.
&#8220;When you start talking about paying people to get vaccinated, when you start trying to incentivize people with other things, then something else is going on,&#8221; he added.
As the public health team walked away, he shouted after them that their &#8220;campaign is about fear. It&#8217;s about inciting fear in people. You all attack people with fear.&#8221; That&#8217;s what this pandemic is. It&#8217;s a fear, it&#8217;s fear, this pandemic. That&#8217;s all it is.&#8221;
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This guy speaks with more clarity and conviction on COVID and the jab than 99% of Republicans. <a href="https://t.co/VQQ5OL3rEw">pic.twitter.com/VQQ5OL3rEw</a>
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That same man disagreed with the official COVID death toll count.
Well, we know the gentleman is correct. Now, folks like Fauci are saying Americans will &#8220;likely&#8221; learn to live with COVID as we do the flu. It&#8217;s seasonal and here to stay. Fauci himself <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-now-says-hospitals-are-overcounting-covid-19-cases-in-children-because-they-automatically-get-tested-sound-familiar?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwbrand&amp;fbclid=IwAR1tALbb_xfpaC9N_-pYA0-GMod7Y3k7Y_NIbr3ykviFGK4e3d25rAOlXg0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted that COVID deaths</a> were being overcounted in some instances in 2021.
Then there was another woman in Anacostia who also wasn&#8217;t picking up what Fauci was putting down.
&#8220;Well, I heard that [the vaccine] doesn&#8217;t cure it and doesn&#8217;t stop you from getting it &#8230; sooo,&#8221; she said, perhaps wondering what the point was.
&#8220;On the very, very, very very rare chance that you do get it even if you&#8217;re vaccinated, you don&#8217;t even feel sick. It&#8217;s like you don&#8217;t even know you got infected. It&#8217;s very, very good at protecting you.&#8221;
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Anacostia resident: &quot;I head the [vaccine] doesn&#39;t cure it and doesn&#39;t stop you from getting it.&quot;
Fauci: &quot;On the rare chance that you do get it even when you&#39;re vaccinated, you don&#39;t even feel sick. It&#39;s like you don&#39;t even know you got infected. It&#39;s very good at protecting you&quot; <a href="https://t.co/QueSljq3kk">pic.twitter.com/QueSljq3kk</a>
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Contrary to Fauci&#8217;s insistence that the vaccines work as advertised except in &#8220;very, very, very rare&#8221; occasions, we know that &#8220;breakthrough&#8221; infections occur and that the vax touted by Fauci at that time became less effective over time. Five shots later, and now health officials say Americans should get a yearly shot — again, like the flu. Other data show that natural immunity is <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/natural-immunity-protective-covid-vaccine-severe-illness-rcna71027" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as protective</a> against severe illness and death from COVID.
In other words, the &#8220;ordinary&#8221; guys appear to be right and the self-proclaimed experts were wrong on COVID. It is nothing new, but it sure is nice seeing it on camera.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 11: Washington DC Mayor Murial Bowser participates in a virtual meeting with Director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci at the Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus on June 11, 2021 in Washington, DC. Fauci spoke on the urgency to get all eligible individuals vaccinated against COVID-19. design – 2023-03-20T155936.486

WATCH: D.C. Residents Shred Fauci, The Door-To-Door COVID Vax Salesman, In 2021

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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) slammed Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, over the weekend for making statements about the origins of COVID that are not supported by the findings of the U.S. intelligence community.
Turner made the remarks during an interview on Sunday with Martha Raddatz on ABC News&#8217;s &#8220;This Week&#8221; when asked about why he and the Department of Energy concluded that the pandemic likely originated from a lab in China.
&#8220;I think there&#8217;s significant evidence that lends itself to that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That&#8217;s why you just saw unanimously both the Senate and the House pass legislation demanding that the administration declassify the intelligence the intelligence community has with respect to COVID-19. It is incredibly frustrating for members of Congress to watch Dr. Fauci go on television and say things that are absolutely not supported by the intelligence. We&#8217;re seeing the intelligence. It&#8217;s not like we voted to say, show us the intelligence. We&#8217;ve seen it. We’ve voted to say, show the American people.&#8221;
&#8220;They’re not getting the straight answer from Dr. Fauci or from this administration,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They need to be able to see for themselves that they &#8212; what has occurred. And I understand that Dr. Fauci has a reason to say that there was not a lab leak, because he was actively working to fund the lab in – in Wuhan. So, you – you see a gentleman who is – who is biased.&#8221;
&#8220;The evidence totally shows it, that there is funds over which he has control that ended up at the Wuhan lab,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;So, at this time, you&#8217;ve got a guy who&#8217;s going on national television, I believe, and I think members of Congress believe, saying things that are not reflected in the intelligence. So, our view is, show the American public the intelligence and then you can have the intelligence in front of you. And the next time Dr. Fauci’s on you can say, hey, but the intelligence actually says x, and you can challenge him.&#8221;
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As U.S. intelligence agencies remain divided over COVID-19 origins, Republican Rep. Mike Turner criticizes Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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<blockquote>MARTHA RADDATZ, ABC NEWS HOST: I want to turn to Covid origins. You&#8217;ve said that you believe Covid originated from a Chinese lab leak based on significant evidence. The Department of Energy said it has concluded the same, but with low confidence. Why are you so certain?
REP. MIKE TURNER (R-OH): Well, actually what I said is, I think there&#8217;s significant evidence that lends itself to that. And – and I still do. That&#8217;s why you just saw unanimously both the Senate and the House pass legislation demanding that the administration declassify the intelligence the intelligence community has with respect to Covid-19. It is incredibly frustrating for members of Congress to watch Dr. Fauci go on television and say things that are absolutely not supported by the intelligence. We&#8217;re seeing the intelligence. It&#8217;s not like we voted to say, show us the intelligence. We&#8217;ve seen it. We’ve voted to say, show the American people. They’re not getting the straight answer from Dr. Fauci or from this administration. They need to be able to see for themselves that they &#8212; what has occurred. And I understand that Dr. Fauci has a reason to say that there was not a lab leak, because he was actively working to fund the lab in – in Wuhan. So, you – you see a gentleman who is – who is biased. I think this (INAUDIBLE) in public this straight &#8212;
RADDATZ: I think Dr. Fauci would dispute that.
TURNER: Well, I think the evidence totally shows it, that there is funds over which he has control that ended up at the Wuhan lab. So, at this time, you&#8217;ve got a guy who&#8217;s going on national television, I believe, and I think members of Congress believe, saying things that are not reflected in the intelligence. So, our view is, show the American public the intelligence and then you &#8212; Martha, you can have the intelligence in front of you. And the next time Dr. Fauci’s on you can say, hey, but the intelligence actually says x, and you can challenge him.</blockquote>

Top Lawmaker On Intel Committee: It’s ‘Incredibly Frustrating’ To Watch Fauci Say Things That Are ‘Not Reflected’ In Intel

Top Lawmaker On Intel Committee: It's 'Incredibly Frustrating' To Watch Fauci Say Things That Are 'Not Reflected' In Intel

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Megyn Kelly blasted Dr. Anthony Fauci, calling him a liar who protected China by promulgating the idea that COVID did not originate from a lab leak.
“Let’s talk about Dr. Fauci and his lies,” Kelly began on her podcast. “This guy, it’s amazing he&#8217;s gotten away with this. It’s amazing the mainstream media doesn&#8217;t show more interest in what are clearly lies, they come out every week, but they just love their little Fauci superhero doll. Each one of them goes to sleep with it at their bedside every night, and no narrative can be advanced that contradicts it.”
Kelly cited the article in Nature Medicine released early in the pandemic authored by virologists that argued COVID came from “natural origin” and not from a lab leak. She said Francis Collins, then head of the NIH, joined Fauci to use the article as an independent claim not connected to them to buttress their claim that the virus did not derive from a lab leak.
“So lab leak is racist, take a seat if you’re a ‘lab leaker,’” Kelly recalled. “You’re a fringey conspiracy theorist.”
“Fauci went so far as to basically pretend he didn&#8217;t even know these people who wrote the report. Like ‘I can&#8217;t even remember the names of who were on this paper,’” Kelly said.
Fauci said at the time: “There was a study recently that we can make available to you where a group of highly-qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences there, the sequences in bats, as they evolve and the mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now is totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human. So the paper will be available. I don&#8217;t have the authors right now, but we can make it available to you.”
“He can’t even remember who it was,” Kelly mocked. She cited Kristian Andersen, one of the authors of the study, who admitted in February 2020, “Our main work &#8230; has been focused on trying to disprove any type of lab theory.”
“So it wasn’t objective; it wasn’t some kind of open-minded search,” Kelly asserted.
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Andersen claimed that on a February 1, 2020, conference call, Fauci did not attempt to influence the authors of the study, but the House Select Committee called that claim “demonstrably false,” citing Andersen’s letter to Nature on February 20 that Fauci and Collins had prompted their study.
“It was all lies,” Kelly said. “Every day we get new emails that show Fauci&#8217;s been lying and his little virologists who&#8217;ve participated in that Nature article, which they used to shame honest virologists out of saying it was a lab leak. It was all a Fauci operation — it was disinformation as the media likes to call it, and you&#8217;ll hear nothing about this in the mainstream media.”
“He is a little superhero to the Left, and they won&#8217;t report on this,&#8221; Kelly continued. “He&#8217;s been lying to us all along, of course his fingerprints were all over the Nature article. He didn&#8217;t give a s*** where the pandemic originated, because China.”
On Wednesday, former CDC Director Robert Redfield <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/antithetical-to-science-ex-cdc-director-takes-fauci-to-task-for-suppressing-lab-leak-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> before the House Select Subcommittee, saying he had conducted calls with Fauci, WHO chief scientist Jeremy Farrar, and WHO director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus where he “expressed as a clinical virologist that I felt it was not scientifically plausible that this virus went from a bat to humans and became one of the most infectious viruses that we have in humans.”
He added that he was excluded from further calls with the three men “because it was told to me that they wanted a single narrative and that I obviously had a different point of view.”

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‘He Didn’t Give A S*** … Because China’: Megyn Kelly Calls Fauci A Liar About COVID Origins

Megyn Kelly Calls Fauci A Liar About COVID Origins

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Former CDC Director <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/former-cdc-director-says-american-tax-dollars-funded-research-at-wuhan-lab-that-created-covid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert Redfield</a> said on Wednesday that Dr. Anthony Fauci actively sought to exclude or silence anyone who failed to embrace his chosen narrative on the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/see-it-jim-jordan-goes-on-tear-against-dr-anthony-fauci-over-covid-origins/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pandemic&#8217;s origins</a>.
During a hearing before the House Oversight Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Redfield claimed that Fauci — who served as the head of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s Coronavirus Response Team before taking on the role of chief medical adviser in President Joe Biden&#8217;s White House — had intentionally excluded him from conversations because he refused to fall in line.
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&#8220;This was an a priori decision that there’s one point of view that we’re going to put out there, and anyone who doesn’t agree with it is going to be sidelined. And as I say, I was only the CDC director, and I was sidelined,&#8221; Redfield asserted during the hearing.
The former CDC director, a virologist himself, said that he was vocal even in January of 2020 about his suspicions that the novel coronavirus had likely originated in a lab. &#8220;I think I made it very clear in January [2020] to all of them why we had to aggressively pursue this. And I let them know as a virologist that I didn’t see that this was anything like SARS or MERS. … And they knew that was how I was thinking,&#8221; he explained — and he said that it was not long afterward that Fauci began working to exclude him from the conversation.
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Redfield went on to detail a conference call that took place on February 2, 2020 — one that included both Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins, then head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and that he was not invited to join and did not learn about until a Freedom of Information Act request resulted in the publication of emails pertaining to the call.
&#8220;I didn’t know there was a February 1 conference call until the Freedom of Information came out with the emails, and I was quite upset, as the CDC director, that I was excluded from those discussions,&#8221; Redfield said.
Congressman James Comer (R-KY) pressed Redfield for details, asking, &#8220;Why would they do this?&#8221;
&#8220;Because I had a different point of view. And I was told that they had made a decision that they would keep this confidential until they came up with a single narrative — which I will argue is antithetical to science,&#8221; he replied. &#8220;Science never selects a single narrative. We foster — as my colleagues just said — we foster debate. And we’re confident that with debate, science will eventually get to the truth.&#8221;

House Select Subcommittee On The Coronavirus Pandemic Investigates The Origins Of COVID-19

‘Antithetical To Science’: Ex-CDC Chief Says Fauci ‘Sidelined’ Anyone Who Dared Question Him On COVID

Ex-CDC Chief Robert Redfield Says Fauci Intentionally 'Sidelined' Anyone Who Dared Question Him On COVID

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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) went on a tear Wednesday against Dr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anthony-fauci" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthony Fauci</a> over the longtime government health official&#8217;s resistance to the theory that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID</a> came from a lab leak in Wuhan, China.
&#8220;He was trying to cover his backside, and everybody knows it,&#8221; Jordan declared <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/investigating-the-origins-of-covid-19/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">during a hearing of the</a> Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. &#8220;And that&#8217;s the part that ticks us off.&#8221;
&#8220;This is the highest paid guy in our government getting all kinds of money to tell us things that were not accurate,&#8221; Jordan continued. &#8220;We now know U.S. tax dollars went to a lab in China, a lab that was not up to code, a lab that was doing gain-of-function research, and that&#8217;s where this thing most definitely came from.&#8221;
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-intel-prompts-energy-dept-to-assess-covid-likely-leaked-from-wuhan-lab-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New intelligence reportedly led the Energy Department</a> to assess with &#8220;low confidence&#8221; that the pandemic likely began with a lab leak, a shift from its prior stance of being undecided. Some scientists and many Republicans have long claimed that the virus originated in a lab and that China has been engaged in a cover-up, which <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3087915/china-denies-coronavirus-cover-and-insists-relations-rest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beijing has denied</a>. Other U.S. agencies and a <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/09/who-outlines-wuhan-findings-on-origins-of-covid-pandemic.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">preliminary World Health Organization assessment</a> from 2021 have placed more faith in the natural emergence theory — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-blames-attacks-on-china-not-china-for-covid-origins-impasse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a view that Fauci has favored</a>.
A longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fauci became the face of the federal government&#8217;s response to COVID during the Trump and Biden administrations. He even became President Joe Biden&#8217;s chief medical adviser, a role in which he served until his retirement from government at the end of last year.
Republicans who have pledged to investigate Fauci have placed a major focus on federal funding for bat coronavirus research with ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Fauci <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/04/fauci-says-rand-paul-egregiously-incorrect-about-gain-of-function-research.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vociferously denies</a> the work amounted to gain-of-function research. But money that went elsewhere also has attracted interest from investigators.
During his five minutes, Jordan raced through a timeline of events during the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020 and questioned why a pair of leading virologists <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/covid-lab-leak-virologist-changed-tune-fauci-funding" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared to flip</a> from favoring the lab leak theory to rejecting the hypothesis without the emergence of new scientific data. A possible explanation, Jordan offered, was <a href="https://andersen-lab.com/new-niaid-funded-center-established/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a grant</a> for nearly $9 million. &#8220;There&#8217;s 9 million reasons why they changed their mind,&#8221; the congressman quipped.
Jordan also talked about how the government&#8217;s COVID task force kept former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield, who was a witness at the hearing Wednesday, &#8220;out of the loop&#8221; for having a different view to not so quickly discount the theory that COVID emerged from a lab leak.
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&#8220;Keeping him out of the loop probably — potentially could have harmed America —&#8221; Jordan said, before taking a moment to collect his thoughts. &#8220;That&#8217;s the thing that ticks us all off,&#8221; he went on to say before expressing how important it is to get to the bottom of COVID&#8217;s origins.

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Everything is in flux following a report that the U.S. Department of Energy has concluded that the virus that causes COVID likely leaked from a coronavirus lab in Wuhan, China.
Since then, there have been other unsettling reports that shine a spotlight on just who said what and when.
For instance, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s recently retired leading infectious disease expert, had long sought to sell the idea that the virus emerged naturally. Nearly three years ago, Fauci cited a study that found the virus’s mutations “consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human.”
“There was a study recently,” Fauci told reporters on April 17, 2020, when asked if it was possible that virus came from a Chinese lab, “where a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences … in bats as they evolve and the mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now is totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human.&#8221;
“So, the paper will be available. I don’t have the authors right now, but we can make it available to you,&#8221; Fauci said.
But new emails revealed by House Republicans show a completely different story. The emails indicate Fauci &#8220;prompted&#8221; that very study to disprove the theory that the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan. In fact, he had final approval of the scientific paper he had commissioned, The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/05/new-emails-show-fauci-commissioned-paper-to-disprove-wuhan-lab-leak-theory/">reported</a>.
Enter Dr. Jeremy Farrer. Like Fauci, he &#8220;prompted&#8221; the scientific paper. Farrar was then the head of the British nonprofit, the Wellcome Trust, which has long ties to the pharmaceutical industry. On the day the paper was published, emails show Farrar pushed for an edit to the piece. &#8220;Sorry to micromanage/micro edit! But would you be willing to change one sentence?”
He wanted to change the word “unlikely” to “improbable” so a sentence would read: “It is improbable that SARS-CoV-2 emerged through laboratory manipulation of an existing SARS-related coronavirus.”
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Now, Farrar is about to become chief scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO). He is set to take the six-figure role in the second quarter of this year after stepping down as director of Wellcome.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a doctor, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11826847/Experts-call-lab-leak-denying-doctor-Jeremy-Farrar-sacked-World-Health-Organization.html">told</a> DailyMail.com that he opposes Farrar&#8217;s appointment.
&#8220;Jeremy Farrar, the guy who then publicly disdained the lab leak theory despite privately admitting he was still 50:50 on the lab leak should not be in charge of the WHO or any investigations into the origins of Covid,&#8221; Paul told the U.K. paper.
The Mail reported that emails leaked last year show Farrar privately expressed concern that COVID could have leaked from a lab in February 2020. &#8220;He famously told Dr. Anthony Fauci and colleagues that he was 50:50 between a lab leak and natural origin,&#8221; the paper said.
But just weeks later, Farrar signed his name to a letter in the Lancet medical publication denouncing the lab leak hypothesis as nothing more than a &#8220;conspiracy theory.&#8221;
Dr. David Livermore, a microbiologist at the University of East Anglia in the U.K., also told the Mail WHO should reconsider Farrar&#8217;s appointment.
&#8220;He first privately speculated on a lab leak origin for Covid. Yet, he then added his signature to a notorious Lancet letter seeking to debunk the lab leak theory. If he is to lead the WHO, it would be wise for Dr. Farrar to commission investigations of Covid&#8217;s origins entirely independent of the Organization&#8217;s hierarchy, himself included,&#8221; Livermore said.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

Dr. Fauci Testifies Before Senate Committee On Federal Response To COVID-19

Sen. Rand Paul Says COVID Lab Leak-Denying Doctor Should NOT Be WHO’s Top Scientist

 Sen. Rand Paul Says COVID Lab Leak-Denying Doctor Jeremy Farrar Should Be Fired From New Post As World Health Organization's Top Scientist

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-energy">The U.S. Energy Department</a> reportedly concluded that the COVID virus likely leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China. Even though the agency said it was a &#8220;low confidence&#8221; conclusion, the pronouncement elevated the once-conspiracy theory and appeared to vindicate those who had at least questioned the virus&#8217;s origin.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s leading infectious disease expert, had long sought to sell the idea that the virus emerged naturally.
In April 2020, he cited a study that found the virus’s mutations are “consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human.”
“There was a study recently,” Fauci told reporters on April 17, 2020, when asked if it was possible that virus came from a Chinese lab, “where a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences… in bats as they evolve and the mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now is totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human.
“So, the paper will be available. I don’t have the authors right now, but we can make it available to you,&#8221; Fauci said.
But now, new emails revealed by House Republicans show a completely different story.
The emails show Fauci &#8220;prompted&#8221; that very study to disprove the theory that the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China. In fact, he had final approval of the scientific paper he had commissioned, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/05/new-emails-show-fauci-commissioned-paper-to-disprove-wuhan-lab-leak-theory/">reported</a>.
That paper, entitled “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,” was delivered to Fauci for final approval before it was published in Nature Medicine on February 17, 2020.
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The paper &#8220;was written four days after Fauci, and his NIH boss Francis Collins, held a call with the four authors to discuss reports that COVID-19 may have leaked from the Wuhan lab and &#8216;may have been intentionally genetically manipulated,'&#8221; the Post wrote.
The House Oversight subcommittee examining COVID released emails on Sunday that show the paper’s co-author, Dr. Kristian Andersen, said Fauci &#8220;prompted&#8221; him to write the paper with the specific goal to “disprove” the lab-leak theory.
&#8220;There has been a lot of speculation, fear-mongering, and conspiracies put forward in this space,&#8221; Andersen wrote on February 12, 2020, in a cover letter when submitting the paper to Nature Medicine. He said the paper was &#8220;prompted&#8221; by &#8220;Tony Fauci&#8221; and Jeremy Farrer.
Farrar was then the head of the British nonprofit, the Wellcome Trust, which has long ties to the pharmaceutical industry. On the day the paper was published, emails show Farrar pushed for an edit to the piece. &#8220;Sorry to micromanage/micro edit! But would you be willing to change one sentence?”
He wanted to change the word “unlikely” with “improbable” so a sentence would read: “It is improbable that SARS-CoV-2 emerged through laboratory manipulation of an existing SARS-related coronavirus.”
But that wasn&#8217;t the case at all. In a newly updated classified intelligence report, the Department of Energy assessed that the COVID virus &#8220;most likely&#8221; came from a laboratory leak in China, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/26/politics/covid-lab-leak-wuhan-china-intelligence/index.html">according</a> to CNN.
A senior US intelligence official <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a">told</a> The Wall Street Journal that the update to the intelligence assessment &#8220;was conducted in light of new intelligence, further study of academic literature and in consultation with experts outside government.&#8221;
The issue is far from over.
“We need to do extensive hearings,&#8221; Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
&#8220;I hope our Democratic colleagues in the Congress can support that. I know the Republicans in the House are certainly supportive of that,” he said. &#8220;Think about what just happened over the last three years, one of the biggest pandemics in a century. A lot of evidence that it’s coming from the Chinese.&#8221;
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

Fauci Knew: New Emails Show He ‘Prompted’ Paper To Shoot Down Wuhan Lab Leak Theory Of COVID-19

Fauci Knew: New Emails Show He 'Prompted' Paper To Shoot Down Wuhan Lab Leak Theory Of COVID-19

Bipartisan congressional members investigating the origins of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19">COVID</a> and the federal government&#8217;s gain of function research pushed a new memo Sunday claiming new evidence suggests Dr. Anthony Fauci &#8220;prompted the drafting&#8221; of &#8216;Proximal Origins&#8217; to disprove the lab leak theory.
The evidence reviewed by the GOP-led Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic members shows Fauci and at least 12 other scientists, including former National Institute of Health director Dr. Francis Collins, were first warned the virus possibly leaked from a lab in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on a conference call during the early days of the pandemic.
On February 4, 2020 — three days after the call —the memo suggested that four conference call participants who authored <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9">&#8220;The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2&#8221;</a> sent a draft for Fauci and Collins to edit and approve before Nature Medicine published the final paper.
&#8220;The evidence available to the Select Subcommittee suggests that Dr. Anthony Fauci &#8216;prompted&#8217; Dr. Kristian Andersen, Professor, Scripps Research (Scripps), to write Proximal Origin and that the goal was to &#8216;disprove&#8217; any lab leak theory,&#8221; the <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023.03.05-SSCP-Memo-Re.-New-Evidence.Proximal-Origin.pdf">memo</a> reads.
Before Anderson published the article in Nature in March 2020, the subcommittee alleges the doctor wrote to the outlet saying, &#8220;there has been a lot of speculation, fear mongering, and conspiracies put forward in this space and we thought that bringing some clarity to this discussion might be of interest to Nature.&#8221;
&#8220;Prompted by Jeremy Farrah [sic], Tony Fauci, and Francis Collins, Eddie Holmes, Andrew Rambaut, Bob Garry, Ian Lipkin, and myself have been working through much of the (primarily) genetic data to provide agnostic and scientifically informed hypothesis around the origins of the virus,&#8221; a February 12, 2020 email written by Andersen to Nature reads.
According to the evidence the Select Subcommittee revealed, Andersen &#8220;privately&#8221; did not find the narrative of the pangolin sequences data disproved a lab leak theory despite saying so publicly. And while Nature Medicine peer-reviewed &#8216;Proximal Origin&#8217; more than a year earlier, Anderson did not find the pangolin data compelling.
&#8220;Dr. Collins emailed Dr. Fauci expressing dismay that Proximal Origin—which they saw prior to publication and were given the opportunity to edit—did not squash the lab leak hypothesis and asks if the NIH can do more to &#8216;put down&#8217; the lab leak hypothesis,&#8221; the memo reads. &#8220;The next day—after Dr.Collins explicitly asked for more public pressure—Dr. Fauci cited Proximal Origin from the White House podium when asked if COVID-19 leaked from a lab.&#8221;
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Although Andersen claims in an August 2021 letter that he &#8220;objectively weighed all of the evidence available to him while investigating the origins of the virus, lawmakers argue a previous email from Andersen deems the assertion as &#8220;demonstrably false.&#8221;
&#8220;Our main work over the last couple of weeks has been focused on trying to disprove any type of lab theory…,&#8221; a February 8, 2020, email from Andersen reads, according to the memo.
Unredacted <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fauci-s-emails-don-t-prove-wuhan-conspiracy-raise-further-n1269650">email exchanges</a> between Fauci and British zoologist Dr. Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance show that Daszak was working with Chinese virologists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, further suggesting the virus leaked from the lab.
The memo comes after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-intel-prompts-energy-dept-to-assess-covid-likely-leaked-from-wuhan-lab-report">U.S. Department of Energy officials</a> revised a previous document that judged with &#8220;low confidence&#8221; that the virus had leaked from a Chinese laboratory, according to The Wall Street Journal.
New classified intelligence recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress showed Energy Department officials shifted their assessment of the pandemic&#8217;s origins in an updated 2021 report by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines&#8217;s office. The updated classified report also affirms the view that COVID did not stem from a biological weapons program. A lack of a definitive animal source has led researchers and U.S. officials to suspect a leak from Wuhan&#8217;s assemblage of laboratories, The Journal noted.
FBI director Christopher Wray also recently said the bureau assessed that the origins of COVID most likely leaked from a Wuhan lab.
The National Intelligence Council and four agencies, which the Journal says officials refuse to identify, <a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Declassified-Assessment-on-COVID-19-Origins.pdf">still believe</a> with &#8220;low confidence&#8221; in the natural emergence theory. The Central Intelligence Agency and two other agencies reportedly still have not made a determination.

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Pandemic Origins Subcommittee Suggests Fauci Prompted Doctors To Draft Paper To ‘Disprove’ Lab Leak Theory

Pandemic Origins Subcommittee Suggests Fauci Prompted Doctors To 'Disprove' Lab Leak Theory

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Why was a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/communist-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chinese Communist</a>-controlled lab receiving any U.S. tax dollars? It seems that is the question many inside The Beltway don&#8217;t want you asking — especially FBI Director Christopher Wray, based on his comments Tuesday afternoon.
&#8220;So here you’re talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab that killed millions of Americans,&#8221; Wray <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/declassify-the-intelligence-hawley-is-right-covid-origins-info-should-be-released-to-public" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News&#8217; Bret Baier regarding his agency&#8217;s assessment that COVID began in Wuhan, China.
&#8220;I will just make the observation that the Chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work,&#8221; he added, regarding COVID origins.
In other words, it sounds as if Wray is blaming the pandemic solely on the Chinese government and its Wuhan Institute of Virology. Now, based on all available evidence, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) does indeed deserve plenty of criticism.
Yet just because the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) implicated by Wray was &#8220;controlled&#8221; by the CCP, that does not automatically mean that actors in the United States are completely faultless for its leak.
Based on data in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-watchdog-slams-faucis-agency-and-ecohealth-over-deal-with-wuhan-lab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent report published by an internal federal watchdog</a>, the United States of America and its bureaucratic maze of pathogenic research requirements and lackadaisical oversight could also be culpable.
That means that the first &#8220;dirty open secret&#8221; is that Wuhan did receive taxpayer&#8217;s money, albeit indirectly as explained later in this column. But perhaps the larger story being kept in the dark is that that money may have contributed to COVID itself —  a possibility that we need more information to answer.
For background, WIV worked with EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S.-based non-governmental organization focusing on scientific research and pandemic prevention for five years between 2014 &#8211; 2019. EcoHealth Alliance was using a portion of American taxpayer-backed grants given to it by the National Institutes of Health to partner with WIV, specifically to focus on coronaviruses in bats.
While this sort of transaction is fairly commonplace in the scientific industry, a recently released Health and Human Services Department’s Office of Inspector General report indicates that both NIH and EcoHealth Alliance were careless in their business dealings with the Chinese lab.
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That alleged trail of negligence, it seems, has left numerous questions in its wake — particularly just how dangerous the research being conducted at WIV was and its relation to the COVID pandemic.
According to the <a href="https://oig.hhs.gov/oas/reports/region5/52100025.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IG document released</a> in January, NIH and EcoHealth Alliance had established monitoring procedures for WIV, yet both failed to comply with those measures. Given the potential danger of the experiments being conducted by these groups, irresponsibility raises major alarms, according to the government.
Without going into every detail of the 72-page report, NIH did not believe that EcoHealth Alliance and WIV would be engaged in what&#8217;s called &#8220;enhanced potential pandemic pathogens (ePPPs)&#8221; when it was first given the grant money. Per NIH&#8217;s <a href="https://www.nih.gov/news-events/research-involving-potential-pandemic-pathogens" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, &#8220;ePPP research is a type of so-called &#8216;gain-of-function&#8217; (GOF) research &#8230;&#8221;  which requires additional oversight and higher approval (emphasis added).
It should be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-watchdog-slams-faucis-agency-and-ecohealth-over-deal-with-wuhan-lab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted here</a> that Dr. Anthony Fauci was in charge of NIH&#8217;s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at that time. As Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-watchdog-slams-faucis-agency-and-ecohealth-over-deal-with-wuhan-lab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">readers</a> know well, he has long <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rand-paul-addresses-whether-dr-anthony-fauci-could-be-facing-criminal-culpability-for-fraud-repeated-failures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied that U.S. taxpayers</a> funded gain of function research, which enhances the transmissibility or potency of a virus, in Wuhan.
In 2018, after regulations regarding GOF were lessened, NIH added a special term to its agreement with EcoHealth that, “should experiments proposed in this award result in a virus with enhanced growth by more than certain specified benchmarks involving log growth increases, EcoHealth must notify NIAID immediately.&#8221;
According to federal officials, EcoHealth Alliance was instructed to provide a five-year progress report in 2019 about the experiments. The NGO allegedly failed to file a progress report and only did so after NIH requested it in 2021.
However, NIH was two years late in requesting that progress report, according to the federal watchdog.
As previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-watchdog-slams-faucis-agency-and-ecohealth-over-deal-with-wuhan-lab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by The Daily Wire, when NIH finally saw the report in 2021, it “believed there was evidence that the research conducted by EcoHealth’s sub recipient WIV during Year 5 resulted in enhanced growth&#8221; and that it should have immediately notified NIAID back in 2019.
For its part, EcoHealth Alliance has argued that the specific rules were not clear in the first place and that the conclusion it engaged in &#8220;enhanced growth&#8221; or GOF &#8220;is based on a misinterpretation of what the experiment in question actually showed.&#8221;
In 2021, NIH further requested that EcoHealth Alliance retrieve documentation from WIV and submit it to NIH to clarify what happened.
WIV has yet to turn over that documentation and has shown no signs of being willing to comply since 2020.
NIH is blaming EcoHealth Alliance for this mess and vice versa. Both are blaming WIV to varying degrees and claim no conclusion can be reached until it provides more information.
So, that means we may never know what happened at WIV with U.S. taxpayer money right before the pandemic hit.
Now, it appears that the director of the FBI wants all Americans to have their focus squarely on the Chinese government and no other entity regarding COVID. Perhaps he has good reason for doing so.
If COVID actually did come from the lab, then the IG report leads one to wonder whether taxpayer money given by EcoHealth Alliance was involved in its creation.
If that theory were proven true — which EcoHealth Alliance has adamantly denied — then it would be an indictment of America&#8217;s entire health establishment and an international embarrassment.
It would also mean that both the Chinese and American governments are to blame for the world&#8217;s last three years of misery.
In that case, then it is remarkably easy to see why Wray would publicly scrutinize the &#8220;Chinese government-controlled lab&#8221; and not the American-funded NGO and U.S. health agency connected to it.
Since we already know that U.S. taxpayers were involved in allegedly questionable research in Wuhan, perhaps Wray doesn&#8217;t want any more details about what exactly went on there escaping The Swamp.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

D.C.’s Dirty Open Secret About That ‘Chinese Government-Controlled Lab’ In Wuhan

D.C.'s Dirty Open Secret About That ‘Chinese Government-Controlled Lab’ In Wuhan

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