Fauci and Paul had argued earlier in the day during a Senate committee hearing, during which Fauci forcibly denied that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) funded so-called “gain of function” research by the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
That’s not true, Paul told “Fox News Primetime.”
“There’s a famous scientist in the Wuhan lab, her name is Dr. Shi [Zhengli], and she published a paper a couple years ago which has been reviewed by MIT, and says that it’s a gain-of-function research,” Paul said. “But in the byline, she has to list the sponsors. She lists Dr. Fauci and the NIAID as a sponsor of her research, which everybody acknowledges [is] gain-of-function research, juicing up these super viruses. So, I don’t know how you get around this.”
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Cotton then similarly told Fox News's “The Ingraham Angle” that Fauci was being “deliberately evasive” and “playing word games with the American people” in the hearing.
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Newsweek reported last year that beginning in 2014, the NIH funded research by Shi and others into bat coronaviruses to the tune of $3.7 million. Beginning in 2019, Newsweek reported, NIH and NIAID committed another $3.7 million to a six-year research program that included some gain-of-function work. The second phase of the research was managed by the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance.
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“I’m not saying it [coronavirus] did come from the lab. I don’t know,” Paul told “Fox News Primetime” host Brian Kilmeade. “But there is a lot of evidence that makes me worried about this lab and the fact that people are not being honest, the fact that Dr. Fauci would lie and say that he didn’t give any money to this lab – now maybe his answer [is] … that he gave it to an intermediary who gave it to them, but if that’s his answer, I would think that’s kind of a curious way of saying it didn’t happen when it really did happen.”
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Cotton, an early advocate of the theory that the coronavirus started in the Wuhan lab, asked host Laura Ingraham: “Isn’t it an amazing coincidence that this once-in-a-century pandemic originated in a major metropolitan area like Wuhan, just a few hundred yards away from those laboratories? In the whole big country of China, a country the size of the United States, it didn’t come from some rural village up in the mountains near bat caves, but it came from a city larger than New York City which just happened to have these laboratories which Tony Fauci’s agency was indirectly funding.”
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