Dr. Anthony Fauci recently announced he will be stepping down from all government positions, including his position as chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden. As the most notable public health official leading America’s response to COVID for the past two and a half years, Fauci has repeatedly declared, “I represent science.”
My family abided by the severe restrictions Fauci demanded of Americans throughout the pandemic. During that time, my parents lost their son — and I lost my brother — to a non-Covid illness. The devastating consequences of the government-mandated restrictions made his death that much more awful and, in my opinion, more preventable. A little more humility, along with an honest acknowledgement of the steep downsides of the policies he championed, would be a welcome change before Fauci leaves office.
When the country shut down in March 2020, at Fauci’s recommendation, my brother and I were most concerned about protecting our elderly parents. My father suffers from Parkinson’s disease, and this comorbidity renders him especially vulnerable if he contracts the virus.
We diligently wore masks, and I began purchasing them even when Fauci and other public health officials initially discouraged the practice. When mask guidance was reversed in April 2020, my family gladly complied. My <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-coronavirus-response-questioned-daily-dr-fauci-dr-birx-ncna1192266">objections</a>, detailed publicly, centered not on the wisdom of mask-wearing but on the tardiness of the medical experts to reach their updated conclusion.
My family also dutifully “socially distanced.” My brother, who lived two hours away from my parents, no longer entered their house for fear of infecting them through asymptomatic spread. Prior to the pandemic, he visited almost every weekend.
As it turned out, my brother, an able-bodied man in his late 40s, was far more vulnerable during the pandemic than we could have ever imagined. He had various pre-existing health issues, and they were exacerbated by his reaction to the lockdowns.
An interpreter by profession, my brother used to meet with multiple clients at multiple venues each day. Those interactions ended when the country shut down. The emotional support he had derived from the regular visits to our parents also ceased. He had quit smoking, a major risk factor for heart disease, just before the pandemic. In isolation, though, he returned to the habit.
In early September 2020, he had a heart attack, which led to admittance to intensive care units at a couple of hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area. After two short weeks, he passed away.
My family did not get to see him one last time to bid farewell. Washington Hospital in Fremont, where he died, informed me that no visitors were allowed — unless the patient was on their death bed, breathing their last breaths. This meant that patients like my brother, who passed away unexpectedly in the middle of the night, died alone or in the company of medical personnel.
While at St. Rose Hospital in Hayward, a prior ICU where my brother was admitted, he told me he felt like he was “being tortured” by the treatment provided. After his death, I called nearly every one of his doctors at both hospitals to find out what had transpired. Each of them tried to provide answers, except for one doctor at St. Rose, who reacted with hostility and refused further discussion after a few minutes. Now, nearly two years after my brother’s death, questions about why he felt “tortured” remain unanswered.
My brother’s funeral, limited to 20 attendees, featured a slew of grey-haired relatives older than he. My mother, stricken with grief, repeatedly demanded an answer from the heavens for why her son was taken away. As I attended to her, my father sat alone in a wheelchair in front of my brother’s casket.
Multiple factors contributed to my brother’s untimely death, including lifestyle choices, illnesses, and circumstances that existed long before the pandemic. Like others suffering from sudden loss, my parents and I have repeatedly asked ourselves what more we could have done while he was still alive.
With that said, I believe my brother’s chances of surviving would have been higher had strident COVID restrictions not existed. I could have showed up in-person at the hospital by his bedside, tracked down his doctors, demanded any necessary improvements to his care, and advocated on his behalf when he was gravely ill. At the very least, my parents and I could have seen him before he died.
Sadly, my family’s tragedy is not ours alone. The lockdowns and other COVID restrictions — recommended by Fauci and implemented by federal, state, and local governments — have exacted a gargantuan price on Americans.
Americans’ health <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-covid-19-pandemic-changed-americans-health-for-the-worse-11659260165?mod=article_inline">deteriorated</a> due to anxiety, depression, weight gain, a sense of isolation, and missed doctor’s visits or medical screenings. The death rate, in general, among younger adults, such as my brother, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/fauci-and-walensky-double-down-on-failure-covid-pandemic-evidence-data-lockdowns-mask-mandates-restrictions-public-health-experts-11660855180?cx_testId=3&amp;cx_testVariant=cx_4&amp;cx_artPos=4&amp;mod=WTRN#cxrecs_s">surged</a>, with a majority of the deceased suffering from non-COVID causes. Meanwhile, my brother was among many who died of heart disease since the virus reached American shores. In 2020, the year the lockdowns began, the mortality rate for this illness <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/deaths-from-heart-disease-and-stroke-rose-sharply-during-pandemic-11648047600?mod=article_inline">rose</a> by 4.3 percent, with recorded deaths clocking in at the highest number in nearly 20 years.
Today, Fauci has become a lightning rod, but he seems as <a href="https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2022/07/26/anthony-fauci-to-rand-paul---go-ahead--and-investigate-me-over-covid-19">sure of himself</a> as ever and has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/08/23/fauci-house-republicans-oversight-midterm-elections-newday-vpx.cnn">claimed</a>, “I can defend everything I’ve done.” For a scientist wielding supposedly nonpartisan titles, he has resorted to waging <a href="https://people.com/politics/fauci-hits-back-at-critics-like-sen-ted-cruz-what-happened-on-jan-6-senator/">highly partisan attacks</a>.
Amid the heated back and forth, no one can undo my family’s tragedy or the tragedies of so many other families, but officials like Fauci, who engineered this country’s COVID policies, can still make an attempt at humility and critical self-assessment. It would be good for science.
<a href="https://yingma.org/about">Ying Ma</a> is the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Girl-in-the-Ghetto/dp/B07F6RQSFF/ref=as_sl_pc_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=yima04-20&amp;linkCode=w00&amp;linkId=65a30640c470e73911f73da8a34b63a4&amp;creativeASIN=B07F6RQSFF">Chinese Girl in the Ghetto</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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My Brother Died Without Loved Ones Amid Strident Covid Restrictions – More Humility From Fauci Would Be Welcome

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CORAL GABLES, Fla. — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida&#8217;s</a> first lady Casey DeSantis doesn&#8217;t blame parents for being skeptical of health officials who repeatedly flip-flopped on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">coronavirus</a> guidance throughout the pandemic.
In an August interview with The Daily Wire following a &#8220;Mamas for DeSantis&#8221; event, DeSantis discussed how the coronavirus pandemic has changed the way that parents look at political candidates and elections.
Many parents have become single issue voters, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/technology/anti-vax-parents-political-party.html">The New York Times reported</a>: parents skeptical of vaccine mandates, mask mandates, and the grandiose statements of public health officials, who vote for candidates they believe will stand up for their freedom and their children.
&#8220;They should be skeptical of the &#8216;health officials&#8217; during COVID because basically everything they told us was a lie!&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;They said, &#8216;Wear the masks it will stop transmission, take the vaccine, and you won&#8217;t get sick and you won&#8217;t transmit.’”
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&#8220;They were tying people&#8217;s jobs to the COVID vaccine when they knew that the science &#8230; wasn&#8217;t what they said it was,&#8221; she continued.
&#8220;They have done an immense disservice to … society because they have been repeatedly wrong on so many things, but they haven&#8217;t had the fortitude to come out and admit that they were wrong,&#8221; Florida&#8217;s first lady said. &#8220;And so I think parents are very upset by that.&#8221;
She also deeply criticized health officials for mandating that children wear masks even when officials like former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, knew that masks weren&#8217;t really effective at stopping the spread of the virus.
&#8220;It&#8217;s like putting a chain link fence in front of a gnat thinking you are going to stop it,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But they never acknowledged the ramifications of what those masks were doing to our kids, the emotional toll that it was taking, because never before have we taken away the ability of kids to see and receive a smile.&#8221;
And experts are now acknowledging developmental delays in children who were forced to mask for so long, the mother of three noted.
&#8220;Kids aren&#8217;t able to speak as well. They started some of those critical years in kindergarten, first grade, with a mask on their face and not the ability to be able to see their teacher.&#8221;
&#8220;It really is disgusting when you look at public officials who stand up there and take their mask off,&#8221; she continued, <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/11/07/aft-president-randi-weingarten-apologizes-for-going-maskless-at-somos-retreat-in-puerto-rico/">specifically naming</a> American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, &#8220;and at the same time they were forcing and advocating for kids to be muzzled and teachers will be muzzled.&#8221;
&#8220;It was just an atrocity for what a lot of folks did to those kids,&#8221; she added, &#8220;and I am so proud of the governor to stand strong with no vax mandates and no mask mandates from the beginning.&#8221;

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Casey DeSantis: Parents ‘Should Be Skeptical’ Of Health Officials Who Lied During The Pandemic

Casey DeSantis Doesn't Blame Parents Who Are Skeptical Of Health Officials From The Pandemic

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Senator <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/rand-paul/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rand Paul</a> (R-KY) threatened Dr. <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/anthony-fauci/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthony Fauci</a> during a testy hearing on Wednesday, making it abundantly clear that things would be different if Republicans were to gain control of Congress in the fast-approaching <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/youre-not-worried-that-this-reflects-poorly-chuck-todd-grills-vp-over-democrats-midterm-strategy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">midterm elections</a>.
Fauci, who was on Capitol Hill to discuss the federal government&#8217;s response to monkeypox, has sparred with the Kentucky Senator on a number of occasions — and Wednesday&#8217;s hearing was no exception.
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Rand Paul confronts Fauci on his clip saying that getting infected protects you from a virus more than vaccines:
Fauci: “That film you showed was really taken out of context… Reuters fact checked that.”
Paul: “Actually, words don’t lie.” <a href="https://t.co/bJKhlYNt5E">pic.twitter.com/bJKhlYNt5E</a>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1570080420284272641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Paul began with a video of Fauci responding to a question about a patient who wondered whether it would be necessary or wise to get a flu shot after previously being infected with the virus — to which Fauci said no. He explained at the time that previous infection provided protection just like a vaccine would.
&#8220;When people decry vaccine hesitancy, it’s coming from the gobbledygook that you give us. You’re not paying attention to the science. The very basic science is that previous infection provides a level of immunity,&#8221; Paul said. &#8220;If you ignore that in your studies, if you don’t present that in your committees, you’re not being truthful.&#8221;
Fauci objected, first claiming that the video was &#8220;out of context&#8221; and then insisting, &#8220;I have never, ever denied fundamental immunology. In fact, I wrote the chapter in the Textbook of Medicine on fundamental immunology.&#8221;
Paul pushed back, however, noting that in nearly every study determining whether or not additional booster shots were necessary — particularly with regard to COVID vaccines — no one was considering whether or not a person had been previously infected as a factor.
Paul then turned on Fauci directly, adding, &#8220;We’ve been asking you and you refuse to answer whether anybody on the vaccine committees gets royalties from the pharmaceutical companies. I asked you last time and what was your response? &#8216;We don’t have to tell you.'&#8221;
&#8220;But I’ll tell you this, when we get in charge, we’re going change the rules and you will have to divulge where you get your royalties from, from what companies, and if anybody on the committee has a conflict of interest. We’re gonna learn about it. I promise you that,&#8221; he said.

Leading Health Officials Testify On Federal Government’s Response To Monkeypox Outbreak

‘We’re Going To Change The Rules’: Rand Paul Threatens Fauci In Testy Senate Spat

Rand Paul Threatens Dr. Fauci In Testy Senate Spat

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Health authorities plan to recommend that Americans receive <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID</a> shots annually as new boosters roll out this month in a shift from the nation&#8217;s current <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19-vaccine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vaccination</a> focus.
The new emphasis would be similar to flu shots, according to White House officials on Tuesday.
“It is becoming increasingly clear that, looking forward with the COVID-19 pandemic, in the absence of a dramatically different variant, we likely are moving towards a path with a vaccination cadence similar to that of the annual influenza vaccine, with annual, updated COVID-19 shots matched to the currently circulating strains for most of the population,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said during the White House COVID-19 Response Team and Public Health Officials press briefing on Tuesday.
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Fauci noted that some individuals might need more frequent shots.
“Some — particularly vulnerable groups — may continue to need more frequent vaccination against COVID-19,” he added.
White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Ashish Jha also emphasized the annual shots as the new emphasis under the Biden administration.
“Barring any new variant curveball,” Jha said, “for a large majority of Americans, we are moving to a point where a single annual COVID shot should provide a high degree of protection against serious illness all year.”
The CDC has recommended that American adults receive a two-dose shot. A booster shot was recommended six months after the initial vaccination starting in September 2021, followed by a second booster six months later.
Approximately a third of all eligible Americans ages 50 and older have received a second COVID booster, <a href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-people-additional-dose-totalpop" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the CDC. About half of vaccinated American adults received the first booster, according to the data released last week.
The new announcement comes as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pfizer-requests-fda-authorization-for-omicron-covid-booster" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pfizer-BioNTech</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/moderna-says-new-booster-more-effective-targeting-now-dominant-ba-5-variant-of-covid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Moderna</a> were both authorized to offer an updated booster to address the most common subvariants of Omicron.
“The COVID-19 vaccines, including boosters, continue to save countless lives and prevent the most serious outcomes (hospitalization and death) of COVID-19,” FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said in a <a href="https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-authorizes-moderna-pfizer-biontech-bivalent-covid-19-vaccines-use" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. “As we head into fall and begin to spend more time indoors, we strongly encourage anyone who is eligible to consider receiving a booster dose with a bivalent COVID-19 vaccine to provide better protection against currently circulating variants.”
Pfizer’s booster will be available for those 12 years old and older. Moderna’s approval is for those 18 years old and above.
The boosters include the components of the original COVID vaccine along with an mRNA component to target the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of Omicron.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said he expects the new boosters to be available in the next week or so, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-plans-shift-to-annual-covid-shots-as-new-boosters-roll-out-11662484424?mod=e2tw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Wall Street Journal.
The Daily Wire previously reported that some health professionals are concerned regarding the new FDA approval, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-covid-boosters-could-be-authorized-for-use-before-human-testing-is-completed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testing in humans</a> has not yet been completed.
“I’m uncomfortable that we would move forward — that we would give millions or tens of millions of doses to people — based on mouse data,” Paul Offit, an FDA adviser and director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/latest-covid-boosters-are-set-to-roll-out-before-human-testing-is-completed-11661679003" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Wall Street Journal in a report.

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When the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> wanted an Instagram account mocking <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/fauci-unmasked" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Anthony Fauci</a> taken down last year, an official reached out to parent company Meta and got action literally within seconds.
The July 20, 2021 incident, revealed in a newly surfaced email exchange, underscores the close communication between the Democrat White House and solicitous social media giants.
“Hi there &#8211; any way we can get this pulled down? It is not actually one of ours,” wrote Clarke E. Humphrey, digital director for the Biden administration&#8217;s COVID-19 response team in an email time-stamped 1:24 p.m.
Humphrey didn&#8217;t have to wait long for a reply.
“Yep, on it!” replied the recipient, whose name is redacted on the released email. The time stamp on the reply is 1:24:46 p.m. and appears to denote the same time zone.
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🚨Omfg the Biden administration literally asked Meta if they would take down a Fauci parody account on Instagram <a href="https://t.co/Lgnxo04po2">pic.twitter.com/Lgnxo04po2</a>
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Humphrey also cc’d others, including <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/roflaherty">Rob Flaherty</a>, deputy assistant to the president and director of digital strategy, about the account mocking Fauci, who is retiring this year from his post as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden.
The document came to light after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/missouri">Missouri</a> Attorney General Eric Schmitt and his Louisiana counterpart, Jeff Landry, sued the Department of Justice in Louisiana District Court to force it to turn over communications between high-ranking Biden Administration officials from the White House, Department of State, FBI and others and major social media companies.
The attorneys general believe their action could expose how top Biden Administration officials allegedly colluded with social media companies to censor freedom of speech on a number of topics, including COVID-19. The Department of Justice has already turned over communications between a number of federal officials and social media companies, but has so far refused to provide communications from high-level government officials.
“We won in court in July, and the Court required the Biden Administration to turn over communications between federal officials and social media companies,&#8221; Schmitt said in a statement. “We have already received a number of documents that clearly prove that the federal government has an incestuous relationship with social media companies and clearly coordinate to censor freedom of speech, but we’re not done,&#8221; he continued.
Although social media companies are not part of the government and cannot be charged with violating the First Amendment, Schmitt and Landry believe that if they can show the platforms censored certain opinions, statements and beliefs at the direction of the government, it would constitute a &#8220;censorship enterprise&#8221; in violation of federal law.
“Meta, for example, has disclosed that at least 32 federal officials—including senior officials at the FDA, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, and the White House—have communicated with Meta about content moderation on its platforms, many of whom were not disclosed in response to Plaintiffs’ interrogatories to Defendants,” Schmitt and Landry said in a joint statement. “YouTube disclosed eleven federal officials engaged in such communications, including officials at the Census Bureau and the White House, many of whom were also not disclosed by Defendants.”
The censorship enterprise “rises to the highest levels of the U.S. Government, including numerous White House officials,” Schmitt and Landry said.

President Biden Provides An Update On Omicron Variant

White House Asked Meta To Remove Fauci Parody Account. Meta Responded In Less Than 60 Seconds.

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After nearly 40 years as the government’s top infectious disease official, Dr. Anthony Fauci has <a href="https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/statement-anthony-s-fauci-md">announced</a> that he will be stepping down from his role as President Biden’s top medical adviser and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in December. The question is — is he making an exit or a getaway?
Fauci was clear in his press release that though he is 81 years old, this isn’t a retirement. He insisted he still has a lot of “energy and passion for [his] field,” and wants to “pursue the next chapter of [his] career.&#8221; He then warned — err announced — that he will be spending his remaining geriatric years tutoring other physicians. One wonders if he&#8217;ll be tutoring them in the art of hubris.
“I want to use what I have learned as NIAID Director to … inspire and mentor the next generation of scientific leaders as they help prepare the world to face future infectious disease threats,” he said. Heaven help us.
But that, of course, is the PR explanation. One need only look at midterm polling to suss out another reason Fauci may be beating a hasty retreat from public service. His timing means he will exit his post just as Republicans <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-polling-cnn-analysis-spells-disaster-for-democrats-in-midterm-elections">are expected</a> to take control of the House and possibly the Senate.
With Democrats in control of Congress, Fauci has never been made to answer in any serious way for pressuring media outlets and other bureaucrats to suppress medical opinions that didn’t align with his. He has never faced a serious investigation over whether his agency funded gain-of-function research in the Wuhan lab that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scientists-believed-coronavirus-leaked-from-wuhan-lab-but-top-u-s-official-warned-against-debate-report">many experts</a> believe was the source of COVID. Nor has he had to answer questions about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-damning-capitol-hill-testimony-scientists-contradict-faucis-claim-that-nih-never-funded-gain-of-function-research">whether he lied</a> to Congress when he said NIAID never bankrolled such research.
If Republicans win big in November, as they’re still projected to, that could all change.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) tweeted Monday afternoon, immediately following the top doc’s announcement, “Fauci’s resignation will not prevent a full-throated investigation into the origins of the pandemic. He will be asked to testify under oath regarding any discussions he participated in concerning the lab leak.”
That was a sentiment echoed by many Republican leaders.
&#8220;Dr. Fauci is conveniently resigning from his position in December before House Republicans have an opportunity to hold him accountable for destroying our country over these past three years,&#8221; said Representative Andy Biggs (R-AZ), adding that Fauci is “a coward.”
House Oversight Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-KY) endorsed that view, promising that Fauci’s resignation will not prevent Republicans from holding him accountable. “Retirement can’t shield Dr. Fauci from congressional oversight. The American people deserve transparency and accountability about how government officials used their taxpayer dollars, and [House Oversight Republicans] will deliver,” Comer said.
Interestingly, this all assumes that Fauci has timed his departure according to his own whims and not the White House’s, something that should be very much up for debate. Given how Fauci has been <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/fauci-cdc-covid-trust-falls-poll-annenberg-1673997">polling</a> this year, there’s every reason to suspect some back room Team Biden discussions may have ended in the conclusion that “Tony” had become a liability for Democrats’ future prospects.
Right now, along with the rest of his mostly abysmal approval numbers, President Biden is <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/1203165/share-us-adults-approve-way-joe-biden-handling-covid-19/">upside down</a> on his handling of COVID — a sharp swing from when he took office. With Fauci’s recommendations for lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccine requirements, he has rightly become the face of authoritarianism. That’s a reminder the administration doesn’t want the public to have as we head into the last leg of midterm elections and the first leg of the 2024 presidential campaign.
But whether or not the White House gave Fauci a little push on his way out the door, there’s little doubt Democrats will do everything in their power to memory-hole the man who was once their favorite cover boy. They won’t want to see Fauci’s face around the halls of power again. Republicans need to make it clear it’s not up to them.
As House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) put it, “Dr. Fauci lost the trust of the American people when his guidance unnecessarily kept schools closed and businesses shut while obscuring questions about his knowledge on the origins of COVID.”
Regardless of the impetus for his leaving, justice demands that Fauci not be allowed to slink away quietly, with noblesse oblige generalities about how it has been “the honor of a lifetime to have led the NIAID.”
His honor has meant our suffering: <a href="https://www.tfah.org/story/new-data-underscores-impact-of-covid-19-pandemic-on-americans-mental-health-substance-use-and-suicide/">rises in suicide and addiction deaths</a> as desperate people were left in isolation. America’s first promise of freedom of religion broken as churches were forbidden to gather for worship. Businesses forced into bankruptcy when they were forced to close their doors to customers. Kids set back years developmentally due to closed schools and masked faces. Grandparents who died alone in hospital rooms instead of surrounded by their children and grandchildren.
For the sake of all of them, if Republicans win, they need to follow through on their promises of an investigation. You may be ready to say goodbye, Dr. Fauci. But the American people expect to see you later.
The views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Senate Hearing Examines Continuing Response To CoVID-19

As Fauci Farewell Tour Begins, Republicans Say Don’t Go Too Far

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Megyn Kelly opened her show Wednesday with a brutal takedown of Dr. Anthony Fauci and why she believed he should never be in a position of power again. “Good riddance,” she said, adding that he would “not be missed.”
During SiriusXM&#8217;s “The Megyn Kelly Show” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FShh16xQops" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast</a> — following the news the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-fauci-reveals-he-will-retire-this-year-pursue-next-chapter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resigning</a> from his roles in the federal government in December — the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-a-disgrace-megyn-kelly-blasts-upenn-for-nominating-lia-thomas-as-ncaa-woman-of-the-year" target="_blank" rel="noopener">host</a> played clips of all the lies she said Fauci had told during the pandemic that have since been proven true.
“The truth is that Dr. Fauci, who had a greater hand than anyone in causing Americans to lose their jobs, years of learning, and even their lives — thanks to the social and economic upheaval he helped foist upon us during the pandemic — ought to be ashamed to show his face in polite society,” Kelly explained. “Instead the man is self-congratulatory.”
She played a clip of Fauci talking about his integrity and truth. She responded to it saying, “truth, that&#8217;s a joke. As even he has inadvertently admitted. He lied about his views on masks for example. Saying we didn&#8217;t need them. Which happened to be true. Then saying we did. And that he only lied earlier to preserve them for medical workers.”
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The host noted that studies proving otherwise by the CDC were then ignored by Fauci and any criticism of his “edicts” were declared “anti-science.” She said that in May of 2020 the director admitted the “real reason he wanted us all masked” was because they were a “symbol.”
“‘Wear my symbol, serfs,’” Kelly exclaimed, in character as Fauci. “‘Wear two of them in fact.’ He later thought double masking were, quote, common sense. ‘Efff you and eff your kids, I am the science.’”
“Now he says, ‘these weren&#8217;t lies, it wasn&#8217;t a flip-flop, it was just the evolution of facts,’” she added. “What science evolved on the wearing of masks? Something you admit you knew you were lying about at the time you first publicly commented. What science evolved on the vaccination level needed to allegedly get us to herd immunity?”
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/abandoning-reality-megyn-kelly-puts-feminist-group-on-blast-when-it-makes-nonsense-claim-about-trans-women-and-women" target="_blank" rel="noopener">host</a> pointed out that Fauci once said that herd immunity would be reached when “we got to 70 percent” vaccinated only to later change his mind and state it would be at 80 to 85 percent.
“He said he changed the number when he thought the public would tolerate a greater percentage,” the former Fox News host answered her own question. “Another lie that he admitted to. This wasn&#8217;t the evolution of anything, besides Anthony Fauci&#8217;s con.”
“He mocked the idea of natural immunity, eliminating the need for his beloved, mandatory vaccines,” she added. “Despite admitting years earlier that natural immunity is in fact the gold standard. His unexplained reversal cost millions their livelihoods. As of October of 2021, 5 percent of unvaccinated adults said they had lost a job due to a vaccine mandate, according to the Kaiser Foundation.”
“But Fauci&#8217;s biggest lie was told under oath when he testified before Congress that his group at the NIH [National Institute of Health] never funded gain of function research in Wuhan, China,” Kelly continued. “The kind that experiments on bat coronavirus to try to make them more lethal or more transmissible in humans.”
The host said despite Fauci&#8217;s denial, the “NIH was later forced to admit in writing &#8230; that it had indeed funded” the research in China.
The host said Fauci worked with the White House to “encourage censorship” on the tech platform against anyone questioning his claims. She then focused on the “irreparable harm” done to children who were forced to remain out of school for two years under his guidance, as she said Fauci to this day is “indifferent to the harm that he helped cause.”
“The learning loss especially among poor kids, does he care about them?” Kelly asked. “The suicidality of isolated teenagers, many of whom unfortunately, succeeded in taking their own lives. The lack of language development and social skills in kids forced to mask for the better of two years all because they wore his symbol.”
“We should pray this guy never gets near another grant or health group again in his life,” Kelly concluded in her 19 minute takedown. “He has destroyed the trust in public health. His decisions have hurt countless numbers of people &#8230; and we did indeed suffer irreparable harm sir, whether you care to admit it or not. Good riddance Dr. Fauci. You are not truth and you will not be missed.”

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Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> (R-FL) blasted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anthony-fauci" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Anthony Fauci</a>, who serves as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Chief Medical Advisor to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden</a> (D), during an event Wednesday afternoon.
DeSantis made the remarks during a Florida Republican Party “Keep Florida Free” event in Seminole County.
“I&#8217;m just sick of seeing him,” DeSantis declared. “I know he says he&#8217;s gonna retire. Someone needs to grab that little elf and chuck him across the Potomac!”
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DeSantis&#8217; remarks come after Fauci said this week that he will step down from his roles in December “to pursue the next chapter of my career.”
“It has been the honor of a lifetime to have led the NIAID, an extraordinary institution, for so many years and through so many scientific and public health challenges,” he said. “I am very proud of our many accomplishments. I have worked with – and learned from – countless talented and dedicated people in my own laboratory, at NIAID, at NIH and beyond. To them I express my abiding respect and gratitude.”
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director said that over the past 38 years he has spent as the head of the agency, he has advised seven U.S. presidents, beginning with President Ronald Reagan, on “newly emerging and re-emerging infectious disease threats including HIV/AIDS, West Nile virus, the anthrax attacks, pandemic influenza, various bird influenza threats, Ebola and Zika, among others, and, of course, most recently the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“I am particularly proud to have served as the Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden since the very first day of his administration,” he continued.
Fauci emphasized that he is “not retiring,” promising to use his knowledge to “advance science and public health.”
“After more than 50 years of government service, I plan to pursue the next phase of my career while I still have so much energy and passion for my field,” he said. “I want to use what I have learned as NIAID Director to continue to advance science and public health and to inspire and mentor the next generation of scientific leaders as they help prepare the world to face future infectious disease threats.”
“Over the coming months, I will continue to put my full effort, passion and commitment into my current responsibilities, as well as help prepare the Institute for a leadership transition,” he said. “NIH is served by some of the most talented scientists in the world, and I have no doubt that I am leaving this work in very capable hands.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shapiro-drags-fauci-everyone-knows-he-blew-this-job">Shapiro Drags Fauci: ‘Everyone Knows He Blew This Job’</a>

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Dr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anthony-fauci">Anthony Fauci</a> claimed that the reason he is leaving his job as chief medical adviser to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">President Joe Biden</a> in December has nothing to do with the possibility that Republicans might take over the House and subsequently launch an investigation of his actions.
Fauci was confronted by Fox News’ Neil Cavuto on Tuesday, the same day it was reported that Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), a harsh critic of Fauci, sent a letter to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nih">National Institute of Health</a> (NIH) demanding they preserve all records connected to Fauci. Paul has vowed to investigate Fauci.
“Dr. Fauci misled the American people on public health guidance throughout the pandemic, lied to Congress under oath, and funneled tax dollars to fund dangerous research in communist China. The American people deserve transparency and accountability from the NIH regarding the COVID-19 pandemic regardless of Dr. Fauci’s future employment plans,” Paul told <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/08/23/rand-paul-letter-nih-preserve-documents-communications-anthony-fauci-possession/">The Daily Caller</a>.
“Why now, doctor? Why you leaving now?” Cavuto asked.
“Well, you know, Neil, there’s no really very good time to leave; I’ve been thinking about leavIng now for quite a while,” Fauci began. “I was going to stop down ’cause I wanted to while I was still healthy and vigorous and energetic and passionate about what I was doing, to do something outside of the sphere of the federal government.”
Fauci then boasted about his effect on younger scientists: “Something that had more to do, for example, with giving the young people, the younger generation of scientists, the benefit of my experience, by being out there and trying to inspire them by writing and lecturing and things like that.”
Fauci then insisted he was going to leave at the end of the Trump administration but changed his mind:
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I was gonna do that about a year-and-a-half ago, but at the end of the Trump administration, when President Biden was elected, before he even was inaugurated, he asked me to be his chief medical advisor. I felt very honored by that offer and I decided to stay a year, thinking, Neil, that COVID would be done with a year from that time. And it turns out that was not the case.
And then as we got into 2022, I felt that as we got more and more into this and more and more people vaccinated, we very likely would be approaching a period of equilibrium with the virus where we could actually live with it without it disrupting our social order. And then I felt it was about time and that’s the reason why I made the announcement.
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“And I’m gonna give a bit of a runway, a long runway, until December before I step down but it was the right time, Neil,” Fauci stated. “I had been thinking about it for some time, and I just felt since I still had a lot of energy to do other things, I wanted to give myself that opportunity.”
“So this wasn’t a way to avoid Republican investigations if they take over the House and/or the Senate?” Cavuto pressed.
“Oh, Neil, not at all,” Fauci declared. “Not even a little bit. I mean, I have nothing to hide, and I can defend everything I’ve done and every decision I’ve made, so I’m not afraid of that at all. That didn’t even come in as a minor consideration.”
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On Tuesday, Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro laced into Dr. Anthony Fauci, who announced this week he will leave his job as President Biden’s chief medical advisor.
“I&#8217;ll be leaving these positions in December of this year to pursue the next chapter of my career,” Fauci stated.
“Going to stick around just long enough so it doesn&#8217;t look like he is bailing and running for the exits just before the Republicans take Congress,” Shapiro pointed out. “I think the assumption here is that he believes the Republicans are going to take Congress in November and he&#8217;s going to find himself back up under some sort of investigation come January when the Republicans actually take over the House.”
“The next chapter is presumably a $20 million autobiography paid for by Simon &amp; Schuster or HarperCollins or something, a payment, just a boatload of money, and then seven people will actually buy it and those seven people will all be working for the Democratic Party,” Shapiro quipped.
After citing Fauci’s boasting that he wants “to inspire and mentor the next generation of scientific leaders as they help prepare the world for to face infectious disease threat,” Shapiro snapped, “Because he&#8217;s done an unbelievable job of this. He&#8217;s going to prepare the next generation to be just as crappy at this as he was.”
Shapiro turned to the interview Fauci conducted with The Washington  Post: “The same day that he releases his news about leaving NIAID, he also does a really, really self-serving interview with The Washington Post in which he talks about how wonderful, what a great job he did. He suggested that he really stood up to Donald Trump.”
“We played a major role in the development of the vaccines that have now saved millions of lives,” Fauci bragged.
“What major role did Dr. Fauci play in actually developing the vaccines?” Shapiro pointed out.
“I was put in a very unusual circumstance where the country was scared,” Fauci claimed. “They really wanted someone who was steady and honest and showed integrity and stuck with the facts. And I became the symbol of that.”
“There&#8217;s that trademark Anthony Fauci humility,” Shapiro declared, before playing a clip of Fauci bragging about the “Fauci effect.&#8221;
“Man, does Anthony Fauci love Anthony Fauci, that dude just loves that guy,” Shapiro commented. “You could tell that you could see in his documentaries. Hulu did a documentary on him at one point, and there is a picture of Anthony Fauci on the office wall of Anthony Fauci. Now, as a person who is relatively well-known, I can assure you this, my office does not include a giant portrait of me because this is the mark of a true douchebag.”
“I mean, just to put it absolutely bluntly, if you have a giant portrait of you sitting behind you, there are only two reasons for that,” Shapiro surmised. “One, you&#8217;re the dictator of a small communist country, or two, you are a douche bag.”
Shapiro turned to Fauci admitting he called for the country to be shut down, saying, “But there was no way to stop the explosive spread that we knew would occur if we didn&#8217;t do that.”
“You didn&#8217;t stop the explosive spread; as it turns out, the spread was never stopped,” Shapiro asserted. “Actually, the only thing that actually broke the vectors of the virus was the vaccine in terms of bringing down the deadliness of the disease, particularly among those who are highly, highly vulnerable.”
Shapiro noted Fauci’s flip-flopping on masks, his obfuscating the issue when it came to whether he had backed gain-of-function research, his refusal to consider whether COVID had originated in the lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and his support of mandating vaccines for children.
“Has there been a thing where Dr. Fauci wasn&#8217;t at some point wrong in this lesson?” Shapiro asked rhetorically. “I have a lot of sympathy for people who are in positions of public power when unforeseen circumstances occur. But this is the entire thing. You are the head of infectious diseases for the entire United States. This is not supposed to be the way that it works.”
“You&#8217;re not supposed to blow it eight ways from Sunday and then become a national hero just because people hate Trump. And that&#8217;s really what happened with Fauci: Fauci actually blew this job. Everyone knows he blew this job. &#8230; How many bureaucratic idiots have to be in charge of these massive three, four or five letter agencies before we realize that perhaps the bureaucracy is not good at his job, the elites blow it time and time again, and then we are told to trust them because, for example, they&#8217;re anti a politician that the media don&#8217;t like?” Shapiro stated.
He concluded, “So Dr. Fauci, good riddance. And I look forward to seeing you when you are next talking with Senator Rand Paul, except this time he&#8217;s the head of some sort of investigative committee.”

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Shapiro Drags Fauci: 'Everyone Knows He Blew This Job'

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Outgoing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anthony-fauci" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Anthony Fauci</a> was against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19" target="_blank" rel="noopener">masking</a> before he was for it.
He calls flip-flops like that the &#8220;evolution of the science.&#8221; He seems to think that anybody who questions his comments simply must not understand how the scientific theory works — but conservatives aren&#8217;t letting him get away with that sleight of hand.
On Monday night, Fauci told MSNBC, &#8220;With COVID, I mean, the things that we thought we knew in the beginning turned out, as the months went by, to not be the case, which really forced us to adapt and to change some of our policies and recommendations.&#8221;
&#8220;That was interpreted by many as flip-flopping, or not really knowing what&#8217;s going on,&#8221; he added. &#8220;When it really was the evolution of the science.&#8221;
In response, Buck Sexton, co-host of Clay &amp; Buck tweeted, &#8220;No F-ing way, Fauci. Can’t let him pull this bulls***. He lied about his certainty in the &#8216;the science&#8217; at every phase so he could please his lunatic fan base.&#8221;
&#8220;His falsehoods were used to fire people- including veterans- from their jobs. He’s the disgusting villain of Covid,&#8221; he added.
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No F-ing way, Fauci. Can’t let him pull this bullshit. He lied about his certainty in the “the science” at every phase so he could please his lunatic fan base. His falsehoods were used to fire people- including veterans- from their jobs. He’s the disgusting villain of Covid. <a href="https://t.co/Ccp9rHJLRU">https://t.co/Ccp9rHJLRU</a>
&mdash; Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) <a href="https://twitter.com/BuckSexton/status/1561908421464674305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 23, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Indeed, many businesses, communities, and states locked down and limited businesses based on the advice of Fauci and his colleagues. He was — and still is — the face of the pandemic. Millions of people looked to him for guidance.
In turn, economic ruin plagued America based on his recommendations.
His latest comments also bring about the question of why our elected leaders even listened to Fauci&#8217;s advice in the first place.
Commentator Yossi Gestetner rebutted, &#8220;This is garbage on multiple levels: A) Why implement never-tried policies based on an evolving thing? B) Some of these things he/CDC could have known months sooner if they were not arrogant. C) People who YELLED about some of these things were suspended from social media!&#8221;
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This is garbage on multiple levels:
A) Why implement never-tried policies based on an evolving thing?
B) Some of these things he/CDC could have known months sooner if they were not arrogant.
C) People who YELLED about some of these things were suspended from social media!
&mdash; Yossi Gestetner (@YossiGestetner) <a href="https://twitter.com/YossiGestetner/status/1561899810214535177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 23, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Cultural critic Chef Andrew Gruel also argued, &#8220;If science is always evolving, every aspect of covid policy should have been treated with an open mind, but instead it was mandate, mandate, mandate; ban those who ask questions.&#8221;
&#8220;Now that it is all proven wrong it’s &#8216;just evolution.’ Criminal. Anyone who believes this needs help,&#8221; he threw in for good measure.
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If science is always evolving, every aspect of covid policy should have been treated with an open mind, but instead it was mandate, mandate, mandate; ban those who ask questions. Now that it is all proven wrong it’s “just evolution”. Criminal. Anyone who believes this needs help.
&mdash; Chef Andrew Gruel (@ChefGruel) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChefGruel/status/1561942634213810176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 23, 2022</a></blockquote>
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There was one man early on arguing that exact premise.
In April 2020, legendary technology prophet and President Ronald Reagan&#8217;s favorite economist George Gilder warned against ceding decision-making to scientists like Fauci.
In The Wall Street Journal, Gilder <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-need-politicians-in-a-pandemic-11586710824">wrote</a>, &#8220;There are not, and never will be, scientific answers to all public problems. Scientific expertise and specialization inform good policy, but they should never be the final word.”
“To navigate successfully between competing interests or competing calamities, between war and peace, and even between deadly pandemics and deadly economic depressions, we need politics—and politicians,” Gilder opined.
Gilder&#8217;s prescient words were proven true.
At the federal level, we had to endure Fauci&#8217;s manipulation of facts throughout the pandemic. He even admitted to doing so on things like herd immunity based on what he thought the American people could stomach.
&#8220;When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent,&#8221; Fauci <a href="https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/90445">told</a> The New York Times. &#8220;Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, &#8216;I can nudge this up a bit,&#8217; so I went to 80, 85.&#8221;
As pointed out by Dr. Vinay Prasad, that was an astonishing quotation for multiple reasons.
&#8220;&#8230; the two undeniable admissions in the Times article are 1) Fauci is, to some degree, basing his statements on what he thinks the public will accept, and to what degree his rhetoric might help vaccination efforts, and 2) this is the absolutely stunning part, he is admitting this openly to a reporter for the New York Times!&#8221; Prasad wrote.
Prasad also broke down that Fauci was against recommending masks for the general public, only to later endorse the idea.
The medical establishment&#8217;s shift toward being pro-mask &#8220;occurred in the absence of any substantive new mask studies,&#8221; Prasad claimed.
Fauci later revealed that &#8220;his words were chosen to prevent a run on masks — so that healthcare workers would get first priority&#8230;&#8221; Prasad observed.
Prasad laid out why Fauci&#8217;s distortions presented one important question.
&#8220;Irrespective of your feelings in these specific cases, the core tension in both examples is whether we want scientific advisors and public health experts to report just the facts, as they see them, or do we want them to make the additional calculation of what the public would do with those facts, and use that to shape their comments, aiming to maximize the greater good?&#8221;
For the associate professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco, the answer is obvious. The malpractice like the kind that &#8220;Fauci&#8221; engaged in &#8220;cannot be&#8221; acceptable.
If it occurs, &#8220;The public will not trust us, and should not trust us,&#8221; he advised his colleagues. &#8220;People will put our statements through a reverse translator to try to deduce what we truly think, and it gives an unjustified power to scientists that belongs in the hands of people.&#8221;
Fauci never got that message apparently. As of Wednesday, he was denying that he had any involvement in the shutting down of the U.S. economy.
On Fox News, Neil Cavuto asked Fauci if he regretted &#8220;the shut down, the sweeping shutdown, that some say made things worse.&#8221;
&#8220;No, I don&#8217;t, Neil. In fact, I think we need to make sure that your listeners understand, I didn&#8217;t shut down anything,&#8221; a defiant Fauci said.
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&quot;Do you regret the sweeping shutdown that some said made things worse?&quot;
FAUCI: &quot;No&#8230;I didn&#39;t shut down anything.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/IZqMTZ0hIb">pic.twitter.com/IZqMTZ0hIb</a>
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Sure, he wasn&#8217;t the one making the executive decision — but his so-called expertise and position of power led to those kinds of precautions described by Cavuto being implemented by those in power.
Ultimately, the loss of trust in the American medical establishment can never be fully recovered, and that will be Fauci&#8217;s greatest legacy — no matter how he rewrites history in real-time.
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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Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rand-paul">Rand Paul</a> (R-KY) called on the National Institutes of Health, demanding that the organization retain all communications and any other documents in Dr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anthony-fauci">Anthony Fauci</a>&#8216;s possession as his retirement looms closer.
Paul issued a letter — the contents of which were first <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/08/23/rand-paul-letter-nih-preserve-documents-communications-anthony-fauci-possession/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> by The Daily Caller — to the NIH, asking that they preserve all records, e-mails, electronic documents, and data that Fauci may have created or shared while at the NIH. Paul asked that they take special care to preserve any data or communications relating to COVID or to any coronavirus-related research conducted by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) while Fauci held the top spot.
&#8220;In light of this announcement, I formally request you ensure the preservation of all documents and communications within Dr. Fauci’s possession related to his tenure at the National Institutes of Health (NIH),&#8221; Paul wrote upon learning of Fauci&#8217;s upcoming retirement from government employ.
&#8220;This information is critical to ensure that Congress has access to information necessary to conduct proper oversight regarding events that took place during Dr. Fauci’s tenure with the agency. Specifically, I request you preserve all records, e-mail, electronic documents, and data created by or shared with Dr. Fauci during his tenure at NIH that relate to COVID-19 including, but not limited to, NIAID-funded coronavirus research. This preservation request also includes all records of official business conducted on non­ official accounts,&#8221; he added.
Paul and Fauci have consistently <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/go-ahead-fauci-dares-rand-paul-to-make-good-on-threats-to-investigate-him/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">been at odds</a> over the federal government&#8217;s response to the pandemic — and Fauci&#8217;s role in supporting and potentially funding the kind of <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/in-damning-capitol-hill-testimony-scientists-contradict-faucis-claim-that-nih-never-funded-gain-of-function-research/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gain-of-function</a> research that Paul and a number of others believe may have sparked the spread of COVID via a lab leak.
Once Fauci announced his plan to leave the federal government later this year, Paul <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/rand-paul-faucis-resignation-wont-protect-him-from-investigation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made it clear</a> that he was not finished seeking answers from the nation&#8217;s top doc — and he said that retirement would not &#8220;protect&#8221; Fauci from investigation, should it come to that.
Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) appears to be on the same page as Paul, telling Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday that if Republicans take back either the House or the Senate in 2022, Fauci is likely to face some questions.
As Kennedy put it, Fauci was likely to spend &#8220;a lot of time in front of a congressional committee&#8221; unless he were to &#8220;seek asylum in some foreign country whose Powerball jackpot is 287 chickens and a goat.&#8221;
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Sen. John Kennedy says that if Republicans take back Congress, unless Fauci &quot;decides to seek asylum in some foreign country whose Powerball jackpot is 287 chickens and a goat,&quot; he will &quot;be spending a lot of time in front of a Congressional committee.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/E3RbOAA9mk">pic.twitter.com/E3RbOAA9mk</a>
&mdash; The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1561892359503286275?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 23, 2022</a></blockquote>
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