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June 9, 2021
Tennessee Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn joined the growing chorus of Capitol Hill lawmakers last week demanding National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci be fired.
Fire Fauci
The call came on the heels of more than 3,200 pages of emails made public by a BuzzFeed Freedom of Information Act request, which exposed “America’s Doctor” as a political animal who spent 18 months rising to fame as the nation’s preeminent voice on coronavirus to cover his own plausible role in the viral outbreak.
Emails show Fauci dismissed early evidence that COVID-19 came from a Wuhan lab with taxpayer funding sponsored by his own NIAID, disregarded early indications that the virus was beyond containment, and contradicted his explanation for discouraging masks early on as merely concerned about their supply for health care workers. In the pandemic’s first days, Fauci, according to the emails, was the original anti-masker.
Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, argued during an exclusive interview with “Sunday Morning Futures” that “everything points to the Wuhan lab” as it pertains to the origin of COVID-19, and added that “we need to get to the bottom of it.”
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., talks Fauci and media s dismissal of Wuhan lab theory as NIH director Collins faces questions from the GOP.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci on Tuesday defended modest collaboration with scientists in Wuhan, China on studying bat coronaviruses while asserting that the agency did not allocate the money to do gain of function research.
The comments came during a House Appropriations Committee subcommittee hearing on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) fiscal year 2022 budget request. Fauci was asked by Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., on a $600,000 grant from NIAID that went to a group called EcoHealth Alliance, which then paid the Wuhan Institute of Virology to study the risk that bat coronaviruses could infect humans.