Fauci Was Warned About Possible Gain-Of-Function Creation Of COVID-19 In January 2020, Newly Transcribed Emails Show
By: Michael Ginsberg
Well I'll be damned................
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N ational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease head Dr. Anthony Fauci and several other top scientists were warned that COVID-19 could have been created by gain-of-function research in early 2020, according to email transcriptions released Tuesday by Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Two scientists, Michael Farzan of the Scripps Research Institute and Robert Garry of Tulane University, noted properties of the virus that they believed pointed to enhanced transmissibility stemming from gain-of-function research.
The opinions of both men were provided to Fauci, then-National Institutes of Health head Francis Collins, and then-NIH Principal Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak in an email from researcher Jeremy Farrar sent on Jan. 31, 2020. The existence of the emails was first revealed by Buzzfeed News in June 2021, but they were released with significant redactions. Due to classification rules, the emails could only be viewed by the Republican committee members and staff, who could then take notes and transcriptions in a classified setting.
Farzan was “bothered by” SARS-CoV-2’s furin cleavage site, which he viewed as “ highly unlikely ” to have been created in “ an event outside the lab,” according to the transcriptions. The existence of a furin cleavage site , which enables the virus to become more transmissible, has been pointed to by several proponents of the lab leak theory, since the two closest known relatives of SARS-CoV-2, RaTG13 and BANAL-236 , do not have the site.
Farzan claimed that a likely scenario for the creation of the furin cleavage site was the “ passage [of] SARS -live CoVs in tissue culture on human cell lines (under BSL-2) for an extended period of time.”
Garry noted the similarities between SARS-CoV-2 and RaTG13, then the closest known relative to SARS-CoV-2, which was discovered in a cave in Yunnan Province in 2013. The protein sequence would “ all have to be added at the exact same time to gain ” the enhanced transmissibility, he wrote, adding, “ I just can’t figure out how this gets accomplished in nature.”
“ Of course, in the lab it would be easy to generate” the missing protein sequence that separates SARS-CoV-2 from RaTG13, Garry noted.
Garry later downplayed the possibility of the lab leak hypothesis, telling the Daily Caller News Foundation in June 2021 that there was no evidence to support the theory.
Farzan and Garry were not the only experts whose concerns about gain-of-function research and a potential lab leak Fauci was made aware of. Kristian Andersen, an infectious disease expert at Scripps, wrote to Fauci in an email, also in January 2020, that “some of the [virus’] features (potentially) look engineered.” Andersen would backtrack just days later in an email addressed to Peter Daszak, the head of EcoHealth Alliance, blasting “crackpot theories” that COVID-19 is “somehow engineered with intent.”
Despite the concerns of Farzan, Garry, and others, Fauci, Collins, and Tabak would also go on to blast the lab leak hypothesis as a “very destructive conspiracy” theory, after Fox News’ Bret Baier reported on concerns within the U.S. government that COVID-19 originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. While Collins looked for ways to “put down” the lab leak hypothesis, Fauci derided it as “a shiny object that will go away in times [sic].”
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Hmmm. Kept it under wraps pretty well didn't he..................
And lied about it several times during congressional hearings.
No, Paul is the liar, not Dr. Fauci.
A picture is no substitute for an argument.
All facts and evidence to the contrary. Good to know the left's love affair with criminals is still going strong.
"Two scientists, Michael Farzan of the Scripps Research Institute and Robert Garry of Tulane University, noted properties of the virus that they believed pointed to enhanced transmissibility stemming from gain-of-function research.
Why should we believe them? These two random 'scientists'?
I believe and trust Dr. Fauci implicitly.
Fauci planned to sandbag Three distinguished Epidemiologists (which Fauci is not.) They got his e-mails.
Fauci was caught on a hot mic calling a Republican senator a "moron" during a contentious Capitol Hill hearing on Tuesday.
"What a moron, Jesus Christ!" Fauci could be heard saying after being questioned by Republican Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas about disclosing his investments to Congress.
Fauci also repeatedly lied about gain-of-function research.
Fauci won't take responsibility for all the harm he has done with his shut down in 2020 and support for the CCP
Rand Paul IS a moron.
Fauci loses his cool when pressed. He knows what he did.
Lol .... yeah he muddled his way through med school and a successful medical career. How about you?
Whereas Fauci did more than "muddle" his way through med school and is now considered one of the top doctors in his field by other medical professionals.
Rand Paul is a glorified optometrist.
Little lord Fauntleroy is nothing more than a career bureaucrat. Nothing special, except perhaps to the terminally TDS afflicted.
It is smug, an arrogance, a disconnect that only the highest paid bureaucrat could display!
Fauci AND HIS FAMILY have been receiving death threats from right wingers, and someone has even been arrested with the stated purpose of killing Fauci. And those threats have been egged on, if not outright encouraged, by lies spouted by Rand Paul among others.
I'd lose my cool too if in that situation.
Most national figures in the political arena receive death threats.
Nonsense. We have the right to question Fauci. If he can't handle it, then he should be replaced with someone who can.
And I and my family have had them from left wing supported groups. No big issue. Laughed them off then shot them.
And you can prove they are lies...
he only lost his cool because his bullshit was called out....again.
He's a doctor, and at best an advisor. He is not in the political arena. He has been doing the job for 50 years and not had to deal with death threats previously.
Fauci has served the American public health sector in various capacities for more than fifty years and has acted as an advisor to every U.S. president since Ronald Reagan.
Nowhere has anyone said otherwise. However you do not have the right to make up lies, and make death threats against him.
So you feel that death threats are acceptable?
Bull shit.
More bull shit.
Already been proven...
So it has nothing to do with finding out that a guy had been arrested, who was crossing the country, armed, with the expressed intent of killing Fauci?
Dr. Fauci is not the liar here.
Explain the importance of cloth masks?
fauci lies so much he wouldn’t know the truth anymore if It smacked him in the face
Maybe you can answer it - the cloth mask? Does it protect anyone or is it for decoration?
Has Fauci ever proved that it was effective?
Better yet, has Omicron overcome the vaccine?
Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock told the Senate committee yesterday, ‘It’s hard to process what’s actually happening right now, which is, most people are going to get COVID’
cloth masks are better than nothing but other than blocking big airborne aspirations, much much bigger than virus particles, they are useless.
Nope
Delta overcame vaccinations and so has Omicron. Break through infections on both are a proven fact.
Darpa rejected gain-of-function research, research to cause it to jump from animals to humans... Darpa said it was too risky... Darpa rejected EcoHealth Alliance, the organization that wanted the research done... The National Institute of Health (with the agreement of the US State Department) approved the project against Darpa's recommendation EcoHealth contracted with the Wuhan Lab in Communist China (which is why they had to get State Department permission) EcoHealth Alliance paid the lab $598,500 over five years. The actual Funds came from NIAID... The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, the part of the NIH headed by Fauci, awarded a $3.4 million grant to the New York-based EcoHealth Alliance, and gain of function research of Corona Virus was part of what was funded... All of this when directly over the desk of Dr Fauci and has his signature in approval... Fauci saw to it that it was done anyway....
Even if he claims he didn't know what the funding was being used for, he had the Darpa report rejecting the proposal By EcoHealth directly aimed at the Corona virus and Darpa considered the risks to the human population of the planet too great...
I call him the father of Covid-19... Cause he personally in his government post as the head of NIAID made sure it was done...
He will never escape that...
And he has been a government employee for 50 years, He hasn't actually treated a patient since he finished his residency 50+ years ago, he's a research scientist who became a government bureaucrat over 40 years ago...
He hasn't done any serious work as a doctor or scientist for 40+ years...
The definition of a clueless government talking head... His behavior is typical government bureaucrat covering his ass...
Interesting ..... a modern day Mengele be he .....
Genius? Now that is funny.
Thx for the laugh of the day.
I love how the loons on the left dismiss two”random scientists” when it debunks there god Fauci, but God forbid you dismiss their “98 percent of scientists” believe in climate change.
freaking hilarious these loons.
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It’s all a lie and you know it Jim.
What's a lie?
I just love how some come on here with the "it's a lie" bs and give nothing to prove it's a lie. Then expect to be taken seriously.
Yep. They cannot deny that Dr. Fauci was informed of the possibility. It's documented in emails FFS.................the kicker is what he decided to do with the information.
So little lord Fauntleroy lied again ..... what a shocker
Fauci was warned? The reports from the WIV credit the NIH and NIAID for funding, and I'm almost certain Collins is mentioned by name in several of the reports, dating back to 2003. The report from 2018 expressly states that they were conducting gain of function research, and unmistakably provides, in more than one place, that they created a chimeric virus by replacing the amino acids and spike protein, and that it proved capable of replicating in human cells both in vitro and in humanized mice, and that they had not seen anything like it in nature. These fuckers were not caught off guard or surprised by any of this.
Yes they already knew, But DARPA didn't know that.. They were probably told to seek funding from DARPA first cause then the research could be kept secret...
DARPA decided to warn the NIH Not knowing that NIH thru NIAID were already well aware of what was being researched...
There is no possible way they can claim they didn't know... Heck they sent EcoHealth there trying to get it under DARPA's security umbrella...
That DARPA refused is the astounding thing here...
You have no idea what you're talking about but you act like you're an expert.
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Well you could at least make an effort to debunk what was said instead of making childish cheap shots.
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