Senator Rand Paul has demanded that Dr. Anthony Fauci be forced to “testify under oath” on whether the NIAID financed gain of function studies at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Fauci acknowledged that the Chinese lab was supported by the National Institutes of Health this week, but he evaded queries about its function support.
Sen. Paul claimed that the Wuhan lab is experimenting with the SARS virus, which he claims is “15 times more deadly than COVID-19” in an appearance with Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom.”
“I think Dr. Fauci should be made to testify under oath about the money that was given to the lab, and the good news is yesterday I passed an amendment on the Senate floor that says no more gain of function money can be sent to China,” Paul said.
“This is very important because this could happen again. I mean, they are experimenting with the SARS virus, which is 15 times more deadly than COVID-19. COVID-19 kills 1% — that’s been 3 million people, more than 3 million people. If SARS got out of the lab, that could be 50 million people. So, this is a very important task ahead of us. We have 11 labs in our country that do this kind of research.”
“The bottom line is he cannot investigate himself,” he added.
“He was responsible for giving this money, so he has every incentive to cover it up and not reveal the truth about it because if the pandemic did come from the lab he would have great culpability in this, so he can’t be investigating this, nor can any of his people that he picks be investigating this. He needs to be excluded from the investigation.”
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