Almost exactly two years ago, just after the former CDC director took his leave of the Biden administration, Redfield stunned CNN host Sanjay Gupta by declaring his conclusion that the pandemic started as a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and resulted from gain-of-function research funded in part by the US despite warnings against it.
It wasn't long after that when Anthony Fauci pushed for a quick "Study" to cover up the likeliest explanation of the pandemic, which would have forced Fauci, Collins, and others to explain why they ignored the CWG warnings and restarted funding for GOF in Wuhan - especially after the State Department explicitly warned that they were failing to adhere to proper biosafety protocols for that kind of research.
"Fauci was probably not too pleased to hear that the virus might have escaped from research that his agency had funded," Nicholas Wade, who also served as an editor for the journals Nature and Science, told the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.
The journalist and author pointed the finger of blame squarely at Fauci and former NIH Director Francis Collins, saying: "It's hard to believe that in the twilight of their long careers they would seriously mishandle an issue as important as the origin of the COVID virus, yet that is what the evidence seems to point to."
Trump administration CDC Director Robert Redfield told a congressional committee Wednesday that his former colleague, Anthony Fauci, and former National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins froze him out of discussions on Covid-19's origins.
The accusation came during a politically charged hearing Wednesday of the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and stoked Republican claims that Fauci in early 2020 promoted the view that an infected animal spread the virus to humans to divert attention from research the U.S. sponsored at China's Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, directed by Fauci until this year, has awarded nearly $8 million to a project led by Scripps Research Institute immunologist Kristian Andersen's lab since May 20, 2020.
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