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NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci accidentally let slip his agency’s collaboration with the Chinese Communist Party on coronavirus research.
In an interview over the weekend, Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser somewhat admitted to Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) accusation that the National Institute of Health (NIH) worked with the Communist Chinese on gain of function research.
“In a very minor collaboration, as part of a subcontract of a grant, we had a collaboration with some Chinese commu…uh, Chinese scientists,” Fauci told PolitiFact.
A little Freudian slip by Fauci: “We had a collaboration with some Chinese Commu— uh ..Chinese Scientists”pic.twitter.com/v25POC26kO
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Paul, he said, “conflated that” during an earlier Senate hearing, claiming “we were involved in creating the virus, which is the most ridiculous, majestic leap I’ve ever heard of.”
In the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions from earlier that morning, Paul accused Fauci of “juicing up” the coronavirus by funding the Wuhan Virology Institute’s “gain of function research” through the NIH.
“Three million people have died from this pandemic, and that should cause us to explore all possibilities. Instead, government authorities, self-interested in continuing gain-of-function research, say there’s nothing to see here,” Paul said.
“For years, Dr. Ralph Baric, a virologist in the US, has been collaborating with Dr. Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Virology Institute, sharing his discoveries about how to create super-viruses. This gain-of-function research has been funded by the NIH,” he added.