The louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards and Health Secretary Xavier Becerra by the White House Monkeypox Response Team briefing to talk about efforts to mitigate the spread of monkeypox in new orleans. The Response Team is also address vaccine allocations and Testing Capacity among other topics. To discuss our together to search vaccine and other prevention resources to louisiana head of southern decadence in new orleans this upcoming holiday weekend. Before i turn it over to governor edwards, let me just take a few key points that make my colleagues and let me drill down on those. First, on vaccine supply and distribution, as i said on friday, we have dramatically accelerated distribution of vaccine supply over the past several weeks. Though it continues to advance equity and ensures vaccines are getting to where they are needed. And to be very clear, as a result of our efforts, we have enough supply going out into the field to be in a strong position to get two doses of vaccine to ev
Get started. I called this meeting of the Senate Homeland security and Government Affairs subcommittee on emerging threats and spending oversight to order. I want to thank senator hassan for allowing this bipartisan hearing to occur. Welcome to each of our panelists. Thank you for joining us. The purpose of this hearing by the subcommittee on emerging threats and spending oversight is to discuss, as our name implies, the emerging threat posed by gain of function research. We will hear from a panel of three witnesses, all of whom are extraordinarily accomplished experts in the Scientific Community. We are grateful for that work, and we are grateful to each of you for taking the time to appear here with us this afternoon. Gain of function research is a controversial Scientific Research method involving the manipulation of pathogens to give them a new aspect or ability, such as making viruses more transmissible or dangerous to humans. Despite all we have learnedre about the potential risk
they then subcontracted with the wuhan lab. in other words, that is where your money went. around $600,000 was used in part to identify, and yes, alter bat coronavirus is likely to infect humans. esthat is called gain of functi. so it looks like tonight rand paul was right all along. dr. fauci is not only wrong, but he knew he was wrong and, yes, the u.s., you did fund gain of function at the wuhan lab and a bigger question tonight, did fauci lie to congress? now, here is what he said just back in may. you might remember and you might be able to decide. we will let you. with all do respect, you are entirely and completely incorrect. that the nih has not and does not now fund gain of function research in the wuhan institute. we do not fund gain of
for a total of $3.1 million. they then subcontracted with the wuhan lab. in other words, that is where your money went. around $600,000 was used in part to identify, and yes, alter back coronavirus is likely to infect humans. that is called pain and function. so it looks like tonight rand paul was right all along. dr. fauci is not only wrong but he knew he was wrong and yes, the u.s., you did fund gain of function at the wuhan lab at a bigger question tonight, did fauci lied to congress? this is what he said in may. you might remember and you might be able to decide. we will let you. to all respect, you are entirely and completely incorrect. that the nih has not and does not now fund gain on function research in the wuhan institute.
hope it never happens again that a witness who is a public health official calls a u.s. senator a liar and doesn t know what he was talking about when clearly senator paul read the paper and had important points to be made. brian: so he did fund gain of function research, right? well, i don t know what the nih considers. i described the research. it is extremely dangerous concerning research. if this originated from a bat cave, why would we go out and look for trouble and bring it to a city of 10 million people and then chop that virus up? so, you know, there is probably legal definitions of what it is or what it isn t. had the point is, this research was potentially dangerous research that brought dangerous viruses in, chopped them up, made new viruses and looked at their infectivity. now, to me, that s gain of function research or could lead directly to gain of function research, but under any definition, that is something that needs to be investigated,