Fauci knew: the lab-leak cover-up that broke America
A Senate committee hearing revealed testimony alleging that a 2021 intelligence assessment pointing to a lab leak origin of COVID-19 was suppressed by Biden administration officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci. The lab-leak theory, once dismissed, is now supported by multiple U.S. agencies based on a review of existing data. Evidence suggests Fauci may have helped shape scientific narratives that downplayed the lab-leak possibility while his agency funded research linked to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
- ▪James Erdman III, a CIA veteran, testified that a 2021 intelligence assessment favoring a lab-leak origin of COVID-19 was suppressed by Biden administration officials.
- ▪Multiple U.S. agencies, including the FBI, CIA, and Department of Energy, now assess that the virus likely originated from a lab leak in Wuhan.
- ▪Dr. Anthony Fauci oversaw grants to EcoHealth Alliance, which funded research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and later promoted a scientific paper dismissing the lab-leak theory without disclosing his involvement.
- ▪The 2020 'Proximal Origin' paper in Nature Medicine, which rejected the lab-leak hypothesis, was revised after edits from Fauci and Francis Collins, and its lead author later received an $8.9 million grant approved by Fauci.
- ▪Fauci previously testified that the NIH did not fund gain-of-function research in Wuhan, a claim contradicted by internal agency documents and funding records.
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