Emails Shows Fauci More Concerned With ‘International Harmony’ Than Finding the Origins of the Virus
More emails from Dr. Fauci and his colleagues about the lab leak theory that have been released by two Republicans on the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees reveal that Fauci was more concerned with upsetting “international harmony” by releasing speculation about a lab leak from Wuhan than he was in getting to the bottom of the origins of the coronavirus.
They wrote a letter addressed to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra that shows that Fauci and his colleague, Dr. Francis Collins, were desperate to tamp down any speculation — no matter how well argued — that the coronavirus escaped from a lab in Wuhan.
The letter included questions the members wanted the answer to.
On February 1, 2020, Dr. Fauci, Dr. Collins, and at least eleven other scientists convened a conference call to discuss COVID-19.7 It was on this conference call that Drs. Fauci and Collins were first warned that COVID-19 may have leaked from the [Wuhan Institute of Virology] and, further, may have been intentionally genetically manipulated. Again, it is unclear if either Dr. Fauci or Dr. Collins ever passed these warnings along to other government officials or if they simply ignored them.
Only three days later, on February 4, 2020, four participants of the conference call authored a paper entitled “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” and sent a draft to Drs. Fauci and Collins.
Prior to final publication in Nature Medicine, the paper was sent to Dr. Fauci for editing and approval.
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