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By Rachel Janfaza, CNN
Dr. Anthony Fauci and Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky erupted in a contentious debate over the origins of the coronavirus during a hearing Tuesday on Capitol Hill, prompting the nation’s top infectious disease expert to once again rebuke Paul.
At issue were Paul’s unfounded claims that the National Institutes of Health played a role in funding research that led to the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Sen. Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly. And I want to say that officially,” Fauci told Paul who has repeatedly, without evidence, suggested that the NIH funded so-called gain-of-function research work done on viruses to make them grow better or to make them more infectious or more virulent at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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