BOMBSHELL: Fauci Pushed for Gain-of-Function Research in 2012, Said It Was Worth the Risk of Pandemic pjmedia.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pjmedia.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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RedState’s Scott Hounsell has been doing incredible work uncovering the fact pattern surrounding Dr. Anthony Fauci and grant money that made its way to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to do gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses. Hounsell recently reported that Fauci had defended such research in Congressional testimony in April of 2012. Some members had apparently picked up on the obvious risks associated with such research.
In April 2012, Dr. Fauci appeared before the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs of the United States Senate to testify about the use of DURC/Gain-of-function research and balancing the risks and “concerns.” Fauci led by emphasizing his agency’s “efforts to develop a ‘universal’ influenza vaccine” that “would potentially save millions of lives and be of great global economic benefit” and their role as “the lead component of NIH for research on biodefense against terrorist attacks…and natur