the sense that they are being told this was unavoidable inflation. the inflation we are still living through today. that s a really good point. let me speak to that. is inflation avoidable or unavoidable? probably one of the best ways to look at that is to look at every advanced economy. every advanced economy in fact, the g7, italy, they euro area, french, the u.k. sandra: but we have the gold standard. let me finish my point, and then you can push back. if you look at the accumulative inflation, every one of those countries i have a graph of this i will put on my twitter feed as soon as i get back to the office they are all about the same. they are all about the same amount. where we stand out as an outlier is when it comes to gdp growth, where we ve done much better than the rest of the pack. they are more exposed to the war in ukraine, so that s part of the story, but the fact is i don t know that inflation was avoidable or unavoidable, but
he read one of his own e-mails urging the very beginning of the pandemic, research on a possible lap leak of that virus. and i now quote to an e-mail that i sent on february 1, 2020. and he relayed to me the concern about the spike protein in the virus. as soon as possible, he, and eddie holmes, should get a group of biologists together to carefully exam the data to determine if his concerns are validated as they should report it to the appropriate authorities. i would imagine in the u.s.a., this would be the fbi and then the u.k., it would be mi5.
i had no input into the content of public paper. the second was a false accusation i tried to cover up the possibility the virus originated from a lab. in fact, the truth is exactly the opposite. i now quote from an email that i sent to professor ferrar on february 1, 2020. quote, jeremy, i just got off the phone with christian anderson and related to me his concern about the site mutation in the spike protein of the virus. i told him that as soon as possible, he and eddie holmes should get a group of evolutionary biologists together to carefully examine the data to determine if his concerns are validated and they should report it to the appropriate authorities. i would imagine that in the usa, this would be the f.b.i. and in the u.k. it would be mi5.
it saved tens of millions of lives worldwide. i will now use my remaining time to directly address certain issues that have been seriously distorted concerning me. the first issue concerns my actions regarding the possibility that sars covid two might have resulted from a lab leak. on january 31, 2020, i was informed through phone calls with jeremyfer area, the director of the welcome trust in the u.k. and christian anderson a highly regarded scientists at scripps research institute that they and eddie holmes, a world class virologist from australia were concerned the again alm i can sequence of sars suggested the virus could have been manipulated in a lab. i participated in the conference call with a dozen international virologists to discuss this possibility versus a spillover from an animal reservoir.
to change that and correct that deficit of a separation between the local and the federal cdc so that we can get information in real-time. it was very frustrating for us, that often, we had to go to the u.k. or south africa or israel to get real-time information, because they had a connection between what was going on on the ground, and their public health system. they knew right away what was happening. dr. fauci, you talked about how we lived in partisan times and a lot of misinformation and colleagues on this body said, you should be charged and found guilty. of course, the only one that has happened to is your former boss. the question i have, when you saw a lot of that this information, whether it was, you know, using disinfectant to do a cleaning or light in the body or china is working super hard,