Fauci accused of LYING about Wuhan research lab funding after bombshell new docs revealed
DR. Anthony Fauci has been accused of lying to the American public after newly-revealed documents seem to contradict his claims that his Agency did not fund research of coronaviruses in a Wuhan, China, lab.
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky said the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases lied in congress, as he shared a bombshell article on social media.
The article includes documents which claim the National Institute of Health did give grants to a nonprofit that funneled federal funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for bat coronavirus research, as reported by the .
According to the documents, the US government gave $3.1million to health organization EcoHealth Alliance which went into research on bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
"Surprise surprise - Fauci lied again," Senator Paul on Tuesday. "And I was right about his agency funding novel Coronavirus research at Wuhan."
In a heated exchange with Senator Paul during his congressional testimony in July, Dr. Fauci denied that his Agency provided funding for “gain-of-function” research, which modifies biological agents.
But the grant proposal, filed with Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and included in the newly-released documents, was for a project named “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence."
The project included the testing of thousands of bat samples for novel coronaviruses, and nearly $600,000 of the $3.1million in US funding was used in part to find and alter bat coronaviruses that could infect humans.
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“Fieldwork involves the highest risk of exposure to SARS or other CoVs, while working in caves with high bat density overhead and the potential for fecal dust to be inhaled," reads the proposal.
The grant was awarded between 2014 and 2019, when funding was renewed before being suspended by the Trump administration in 2020.
Dr. Fauci first pushed back before relenting on a Trump White House directive to cancel the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance.
Meanwhile, a federal watchdog is set to "; reviewing how NIH monitored selected grants," according to Department of Health and Human Services inspector general spokesperson Tesia Williams
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