Republicans React to Energy Department s Reported Finding That COVID Likely Leaked From Wuhan Lab
Some lawmakers also accused Anthony Fauci, former head of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), of colluding with big tech companies, such as Facebook and Twitter, and censoring stories about the lab leak theory via what these companies describe as a crackdown on misinformation.
Fauci knew this immediately but dismissed it because of funding for the Wuhan lab, Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) wrote in another post. We know what happened next when Fauci spoke Big Tech censored. I exposed this collusion as AG and I ll work to ensure this type of censorship never happens again.
Americans knew this from Day One, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) wrote on Twitter on Sunday. Unfortunately, Big Tech and Big Government silenced them.
Republicans and critics of Fauci have raised concerns about the NIAID s funding of the Wuhan Institute of Virology via the non-governmental organization EcoHealth Alliance, including for research described by experts as gain-of-function. The NIAID issued about 3.4 million in grants to EcoHealth.
Gain-of-function research makes the virus more deadly by enhancing its pathogenicity, its ability to cause disease and harm the host, or transmissibility, how easily it spreads.
The NIH has denied that the grants were for gain-of-function research, while Fauci has defended the decision to issue the grants to EcoHealth.
More evidence continues to mount that COVID came from the Wuhan lab. We ve uncovered emails showing Dr. Fauci was warned that the virus looked man-made & came from a lab, but he may have acted to cover it up. Why? We need answers & accountability, wrote the official Twitter account of the House Oversight Republican Committee.
Republicans on the committee previously disclosed internal NIH emails that showed Fauci was informed by senior scientists early in the pandemic that the theory that COVID-19 had a natural origin was highly unlikely, even while Fauci was publicly promoting the natural origin theory.