Dr Anthony Fauci FINALLY agrees to testify in front of House Republicans about Covid origins and his links to Wuhan bat lab

Anthony Fauci has finally agreed to testify in Congress about his participation in the public cover-up of the origins of Covid.

A former White House doctor will be grilled over his former department’s funding of dangerous experiments in Wuhan and the stark difference between his public and private comments about the possibility of Covid escaping from a lab he funded.

He is scheduled to testify before the House in January, which will be the first time he has testified under oath since his infamous showdown before the Senate in July 2021.

Since then, leaked emails show that Fauci knew that virus manipulation research was being conducted in Wuhan in the lead-up to the pandemic.

Sen. Rand Paul got into a heated debate with Dr. Anthony Fauci at a July 2021 hearing as he again pushed the nation’s leading immunologist for U.S.-funded enhancement research in Wuhan. Fauci responded: “You don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Fauci’s testimony will begin with two days of closed-door transcripts of interviews on Jan. 8 and 9 for seven hours each day. This will be followed by a public hearing which is expected to be highly contentious.

The former White House medical adviser was criticized for downplaying the possibility of a virus leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and US ties to research there.

Rep. Wenstrup, who chairs the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, previously said the investigation into the origins of Covid “must start with where and how this virus emerged so that we can try to predict, prepare for or prevent its recurrence.”

Earlier this year, the Department of Energy Concluded with “low confidence” that the pandemic was “likely” caused by a leak from a Wuhan laboratory, according to a classified report provided to members of the House and Senate intelligence committees.

A month later, Christopher Wray, the FBI director, said the FBI believed Covid likely originated from a “potential laboratory incident” in Wuhan.

Dr. Christian Andersen, a Danish evolutionary biologist, co-authored an infamous research paper published in March 2020 that denounced the idea of ​​a laboratory leak as a conspiracy theory and xenophobia.

The infamous near-origin paper was commissioned in part by Dr. Anthony Fauci, then the head of the US national research agency, which funded risky research into the virus on Covid relatives in a laboratory in Wuhan, partly at the expense of American taxpayers.

But Email on February 1, 2020, showed Fauci admitting that “scientists at Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments to determine the molecular mechanisms involved in the adaptation of bat viruses to human infection, and the outbreak originated in Wuhan “

On July 13, 2023, the House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released emails sent by Dr. Fauci about a conference call on the origins of Covid attended by Dr. Fauci, Dr. Francis Collins, former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, and others. researchers.

Dr. Anthony Fauci (in an interview with DailyMail.com in July) still believed that Covid occurred naturally, despite mounting circumstantial evidence of a laboratory accident.

Emails dated February 1, 2020 show Fauci acknowledging that “scientists at Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments to determine that molecular mechanisms associated with bat viruses adapt to human infection and outbreak originated in Wuhan.”

In one email, Dr. Fauci acknowledged that scientists had concerns that Covid could have been created through genetic engineering and that the situation was exacerbated by the fact that gain-of-function research had taken place in Wuhan before the pandemic.

Gain-of-function studies are medical studies that genetically alter a virus to make it more deadly or contagious to try to outpace possible natural mutations.

At a hearing in July, Fauci “stated that the NIH has never and will not fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” Paul said on the committee floor.

“And yet, the gain-of-function study was conducted entirely at the Wuhan Institute by Dr. Shi (Zhengli) and was funded by the NIH,” he said.

Paul then cited a paper by WIV scientists entitled “Discovery of a rich gene pool of bat SARS-associated coronaviruses provides new insight into the origins of the SARS coronavirus.”

The document specifically refers to ongoing efforts to create a “chimeric” coronavirus, meaning it has been altered by humans, also known as “gain of function.”

In July, Fauci told DailyMail.com he believed natural origins were still the most likely explanation, but left the door open, saying we will likely never know how Covid started.

Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, previously accused Dr. Fauci of lying under oath due to his knowledge of research into dangerous viruses in China.

Dr. Fauci, 82, testified before a Senate committee in 2021. that his former department “has never and will not fund additional research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

Dr. Fauci was the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) until the end of 2022 and was responsible for signing research grants.

Senators are also demanding answers about a laboratory in Montana where US taxpayer money was used to manipulate coronaviruses before the pandemic.

DailyMail.com last month revealed how government-sponsored researchers infected bats with a SARS-like virus in 2018 as part of a collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is at the center of a Covid cover-up scandal.

Republican Sens. Joni Ernst of Iowa and Eric Schmitt of Missouri will today send a letter to the National Institutes of Health demanding they “learn more about potentially risky research” being conducted at Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML).

The senators’ letter, seen by DailyMail.com, said: “There is no room for error and no excuse for negligence, as even a minor failure can have catastrophic consequences when dealing with dangerous biological agents, especially those with pandemic potential.”

The letter contained 10 questions, including how many live bats the lab currently housed and future experiments planned.