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Lawmakers grilled Dr. Anthony Fauci, who served as chief medical advisor to President Biden during the COVID-19 pandemic, for his assertions that he wasn’t responsible for the six-foot social distancing rule and other policies during his Monday testimony to the House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.
The subcommittee’s chair, Ohio Republican Rep. Brad Wenstrup, took aim at Fauci’s infamous “I represent science” comments in his opening remarks.
“Science doesn’t belong to any one person,” Wenstrup said.
Democratic Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin later offered the first trickle of what would become a torrent effusive praise and penitence from the subcommittee’s minority side.
Fauci mentions research by Peter Hotez about misinformation. Like Fauci, Hotez subcontracted funding to research projects involving the Wuhan Institute of Virology, including PLA-connected scientist Zhou Yusen.
— Emily Kopp (@emilyakopp) June 3, 2024
“The investigation of Dr. Fauci shows he is an honorable public servant who has devoted his entire career to the public health and the public interest and he is not a comic book supervillain,” Raskin claimed. “He did not fund research to create the COVID-19 pandemic. He did not lie to Congress about gain of function research in Wuhan and he did not organize a lab leak suppression campaign.”
Raskin’s assertions contradict a May announcement from the House Oversight Committee, which claimed that “documents … credibly suggest COVID-19 originated from a lab related accident in Wuhan, China.”
Fauci also claimed multiple times throughout the hearing that studies funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which he headed for 38 years, could not have been the origin of the SARS CoV2 virus.
“The viruses that were studied under the subawards to the Wuhan Institute … those viruses were phylogenetically so far removed from SARS CoV2 that it is molecularly impossible for those viruses to have evolved from SARS COV2,” Fauci testified…
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