“At a minimum, I believe this is something that likely escaped from that lab. They knew. They covered it up. They didn’t say anything for a long time. They didn’t provide access,” DeSantis told The Epoch Times on April 1.
“They knowingly made that decision, and I think probably cost a lot of lives in the process. So they absolutely should be held accountable.”
CCP officials were informed of a viral disease in Wuhan for at least six weeks before notifying the world about the infection. During that time, the regime detained whistleblowers and censored online discussions about the outbreak. The CCP sealed off Wuhan from the rest of China while still allowing international flights in and out of the megacity.
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During an interview with The Epoch Times on April 1, DeSantis blamed the CCP for advocating its draconian lockdowns to other nations as a necessary mitigation measure, leading countries like Italy to ruin their economies. DeSantis also criticized some of the top health officials in the United States, including Anthony Fauci, for aimlessly adopting the communist regime’s lockdown model.
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“I think the people like Fauci were relying on the Communist Party of China for some of this stuff. You can’t trust what comes out of the Communist Party of China,” DeSantis said. “I think it was a huge mistake to give them any validity in terms of what they were doing.”
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Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has been a vigorous advocate of mass lockdowns, masking, and social distancing measures as a way to curb the pandemic. He has mainly ignored the thousands of medical and public health scientists who have evaluated the available data and decided that lockdowns and other blanket restrictions and mandates are futile.
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Under Fauci’s management, NIAID spent U.S. taxpayer dollars on researching bat coronaviruses in China, including a controversial gain-of-function study looking into how coronaviruses develop the capacity to jump from animals to humans. The Trump administration slashed funding to the projects after news reports showed that some of the researchers involved were linked to the Wuhan virology lab located close to where the first cases of CCP virus were reported.
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“It’d be interesting to see with people like Fauci and their relationship with the CCP because … in those early days they were not of a mind to hold China accountable at all,” DeSantis said. “They were buying the propaganda that was coming out there. And that’s had obviously negative consequences because I think it helped lead them to embrace lockdowns.”
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