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Rand Paul v Anthony Fauci: US Senate 11th May 2021 |
US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Hearing: An Update from Federal Officials on Efforts to Combat COVID-19 Anthony Fauci, M.D., Director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and chief medical advisor to the US President. Testimony before US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Questioned by Senator Rand Paul, M.D., representing the people of Kentucky Rand Paul: “Doctor Fauci, we don't know whether the pandemic started in a lab in Wuhan, or evolved naturally, but we should want to know. Three million people have died from this pandemic, and that should cause us to explore all possibilities. Instead: government authorities, self-interested in continuing gain-of-function research¹, say there's nothing to see here. Gain-of-function research, as you know, is juicing-up naturally occurring animal viruses to infect humans. To arrive at the truth, the US Government should admit that the Wuhan Virology Institute was experimenting to enhance the coronavirus's ability to infect humans²⁰. Juicing-up super viruses is not new. Scientists in the US have long known how to mutate animal viruses to infect humans. For years, Doctor Ralph Baric, a virologist in the US, has been collaborating with Doctor Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Virology Institute, sharing his discoveries about how to create super viruses. This gain-of-function research has been funded by the NIH². The collaboration between the US and the Wuhan Virology Institute continues. Doctors Baric and Shi worked together to insert bat virus spike protein into the backbone of the deadly SARS virus, and then used this man-made super virus to infect human airway cells³. Think about that for a moment. The SARS virus had a 15% mortality. We're fighting a pandemic that has about a 1% mortality. Can you imagine if a SARS virus that's been juiced-up and had viral proteins added to it, to the spike protein, if that were released accidentally? Doctor Fauci, do you still support funding of the NIH funding of the lab in Wuhan⁴?” Rand Paul: “Do you fund Doctor Baric’s gain-of-function research?” Anthony Fauci: “Doctor Baric²¹ does not doing gain-of-function research. And if it is, it's according to the guidelines, and it is being conducted in North Carolina⁷. And not... in China²²...” Anthony Fauci: ”That is not...” Rand Paul: “You would be in the minority, because at least 200 scientists have signed a statement from the Cambridge Working Group⁸, saying that it is gain-of-function.” From R01AI110964 Project Summary: 3. Test predictions of CoV inter-species transmission. Predictive models of host range (i.e. emergence potential) will be tested experimentally using reverse genetics, pseudovirus and receptor binding assays, and virus infection experiments across a range of cell cultures from different species and humanized mice Rand Paul: “So do you still support sending money to the Wuhan Virology Institute?” Anthony Fauci: ”We do not send money now to the Wuhan... er... Virology¹⁰...” Rand Paul: “Government defenders of gain-of-function, such as yourself²⁴, say that COVID-19, er, mutations were random, and not designed by man. But interestingly, the technique that Doctor Baric developed, forces mutations by serial passage through cell culture. That the mutations appear to be natural. In fact, Doctor Baric named the technique: the no-see-um technique, because the mutations appear naturally¹⁵... Nicholas Baker in the New York Magazine said: nobody would know if the virus had been fabricated in a laboratory or grown in nature¹⁶. Government authorities in the US, including yourself, unequivocally deny that COVID-19 could have escaped a lab. But even Doctor Shi in Wuhan¹⁷, wasn't so sure. According to Nicholas Baker, Doctor Shi wondered: could this new virus have come from her own laboratory? She checked her records frantically and found no matches. That really took a load off my mind, she said. I had not slept for days¹⁶. The director of the gain-of-function research in Wuhan couldn't sleep because she was terrified that it might be in her lab... Doctor Baric, an advocate of gain-of-function research, admits: the main problem that the Institute of Virology has is the outbreak occurred in close proximity. What are the odds? Baric responded: could you rule out a laboratory escape? The answer in this case is probably not¹⁶... Will you, in front of this group, categorically say that the COVID-19 could not have occurred through serial passage in a laboratory?” |
Rand Paul: “But you do support it in the US. We have 11 labs doing it, and you have allowed it here. We have a committee to do it. But, the committee is granted every exemption. You're fooling with mother nature here. You're allowing super viruses to be created with a 15% mortality. It's very dangerous. I think it was a huge mistake to share this with China. And it's a huge mistake to allow this to continue in the United States. And, we should be very careful to investigate where this virus came from.” |
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