Dr. Anthony Fauci’s claim that the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) did not fund a certain type of research in China was wrong, multiple government officials said in newly released interviews.
Dr. Fauci said while under oath in May 2021 that the NIH “has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the” Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). He held fast to that position when confronted by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) a month later.
Gain-of-function research is commonly known as research that increases a function of a pathogen, such as its transmissibility.
A U.S.-funded experiment carried out at the WIV before the COVID-19 pandemic made a bat coronavirus more virulent, the NIH disclosed in October 2021.
Dr. Hugh Auchincloss, a longtime adviser to Dr. Fauci, told the U.S. House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic that the common definition of gain-of-function covers “any research that attributes a new attribute to a biological agent,” according to a portion of one of the newly released interview transcripts.
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Fauci Was Wrong When He Said NIH Didn’t Fund Gain of Function Research in China: Officials
- by: Zachary Stieber
- 2024-05-01
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The Epoch Times
- 05/02/2024
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