{"id":1451089,"date":"2024-01-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1451089"},"modified":"2024-01-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T05:00:00","slug":"covid-19-may-have-come-from-chinese-laboratory-dr-faucis-former-boss-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/covid-19-may-have-come-from-chinese-laboratory-dr-faucis-former-boss-says\/1451089\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 May Have Come From Chinese Laboratory, Dr. Fauci\u2019s Former Boss Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

COVID-19 May Have Come From Chinese Laboratory, Dr. Fauci\u2019s Former Boss Says<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times<\/a> (emphasis ours),<\/em><\/p>\n

COVID-19 may have come from a laboratory in China<\/strong>, a former National Institutes of Health (NIH) director said in recent closed-door testimony.<\/p>\n

Dr. Francis Collins speaks in Washington on Sept. 9, 2020. (Michael Reynolds\/Pool\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Dr. Francis Collins, the NIH director until late 2021, said that the theory that COVID-19 came from a lab in Wuhan \u201cis not a conspiracy theory,\u201d <\/strong>according to the U.S. House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.<\/p>\n

The panel has released a summary of Dr. Collins\u2019 transcribed interview since it took place on Jan. 12.<\/p>\n

Dr. Collins, 73, who is still President Joe Biden\u2019s science adviser, was director of the NIH from 2009 to 2021. He was the boss of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who helped craft the U.S. pandemic response.<\/p>\n

Dr. Fauci, 83, who left the government in 2022, also told members<\/a> in recent closed-door testimony that the lab leak hypothesis is not a conspiracy theory, according to the subcommittee.<\/p>\n

The former officials were brought in as the panel investigates how the government responded to the pandemic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Collins and Dr. Fauci \u201cprompted\u201d the drafting of a paper called \u201cProximal Origins\u201d that was published in early 2020 and claimed to disprove the lab leak theory, according to an email from one of the authors. Neither Dr. Collins nor Dr. Fauci were named in the acknowledgements or listed as a co-author of the paper.<\/p>\n

Two months after the paper was published, Dr. Collins wrote to Dr. Fauci about public discussions about the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hoped the Nature Medicine article on the genomic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 would settle this\u2026<\/strong> Wondering if there is something NIH can do to help put down this very destructive conspiracy … Anything more we can do?\u201d Dr. Collins wrote at the time.<\/p>\n

Dr. Fauci, meanwhile, promoted \u201cProximal Origins\u201d from the White House podium before alleging he could not recall the names of the authors.<\/p>\n

A number of experts and outlets have backtracked on their earlier position that COVID-19 did not come from a lab, including The Washington Post and the U.N.\u2019s World Health Organization.<\/p>\n

Dr. Collins told the subcommittee that Dr. Fauci invited him to attend a Feb. 1, 2020, conference call that featured scientists who went on to write \u201cProximal Origins,\u201d according to the subcommittee.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThis testimony directly contradicts Dr. Fauci\u2019s previous statements and raises further concerns about the U.S. government\u2019s role in suppressing and vilifying the lab-leak hypothesis,\u201d said the panel, which is chaired by Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio).<\/p>\n

Other Statements<\/h2>\n

Dr. Fauci said that social distancing, or rules that required or advised people to maintain six feet of distance from others, was likely not based on any data.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just sort of appeared<\/strong>,\u201d Dr. Fauci was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n

Dr. Collins also said that social distancing \u201cwas likely not based on any science or data,\u201d according to the subcommittee. Social distancing underpinned a range of measures, including forcing children to stay home from school on some days after schools reopened.<\/p>\n

Dr. Collins also reiterated attacks he\u2019s made against the Great Barrington Declaration, which called for protecting vulnerable people like the elderly and letting younger, healthy people live largely without restrictions, the subcommittee said.<\/p>\n

Dr. Collins told Dr. Fauci via email on Oct. 8, 2020, that the declaration was written by \u201cthree fringe epidemiologists,\u201d even though the authors included professors from Harvard Medical School and Stanford Medical School, and that \u201cthere needs to be a quick and devastating published take down of its premises.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have a federal government figure abusing his power,<\/strong>\u201d Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, one of the authors, told The Epoch Times<\/a> previously. \u201cWhy? Because he couldn\u2019t stand the idea that there were prominent scientists that disagreed with him about pandemic policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Transcripts of the testimony from Dr. Collins and Dr. Fauci have not yet been released, though members of the subcommittee say they will be disclosed at some point.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 01\/16\/2024 – 19:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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