Fauci and Rand Paul clash over SUPER VIRUS CONSPIRACY

dr fauci we don't know whether the pandemic started in a lab in wuhan or evolved naturally but we should want to know three million people have died from this pandemic and that should cause us to explore all possibilities instead government authorities self-interested in continuing gain of function research say there's nothing to see here gain of function research as you know is juicing up naturally occurring animal viruses to infect humans to arrive at the truth the us government should admit that the wuhan virology institute was experimenting to enhance the coronavirus's ability to infect humans juicing up super viruses is not new scientists in the u.s have long known how to mutate animal viruses to infect humans for years dr ralph barrick a virologist in the u.s has been collaborating with dr xi xengli of the wuhan virology institute sharing his discoveries about how to create super viruses this gain of function research has been funded by the nih the collaboration between the u.s and the wuhan virology institute continues doctors barrick and she worked together to insert bat virus spike protein into the backbone of the deadly sars virus and then used this man-made supervirus to infect human airway cells think about that for a moment the sars virus had a 15 mortality we're fighting a pandemic that has about a one percent mortality can you imagine if a sars virus that's been juiced up and had viral proteins added to it to the spike protein if that were released accidentally dr fauci do you still support funding of the nih funding of the lab in wuhan senator paul with all due respect you are entitle entirely and completely incorrect that the nih has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the wuhan institute do they find our doctor we do not fund do you find dr barracks kane of function research dr barrett does not doing gain or function research and if it is it's according to the guidelines and it is being conducted in north carolina i don't think it's concerning a bat virus spike protein that he got from the wuhan institute into the sars viruses gain of function that is not a minority because at least 200 scientists have signed a statement from the cambridge working group saying that it is gain of function well it is not and if you look at the grant and you look at the progress reports it is not gain a function despite the fact that people tweet that so you don't have to report sending money to the wuhan virology institute we do not send money now to do one hun sending money we did under your tutelage we were sending it through eco health it was a sub agency and a sub grant do you support the money from nih that was going to the wuhan institute let me explain to you why that was done the saws cov1 originated in bats in china it would have been irresponsible of us if we did not investigate the bat viruses and the serology to see who might have been or perhaps it would be in china possible to send it to the chinese government that we may not be able to trust with this uh knowledge and with this uh incredibly dangerous viruses government scientists like yourself who favor gain of function i don't favor gain of function research in china that are not correct government defenders of gain of function such as yourself say that covid19 mutations were random and not designed by man but interestingly the technique that dr barrick developed forces mutations by serial passage through cell culture that the mutations appear to be natural in fact dr barrack named the technique the no-see-um technique because the mutations appear naturally nicholas baker in the new york magazine said nobody would know if the virus had been fabricated in a laboratory or grown in nature governor authorities in the u.s including yourself unequivocally deny that covet 19 could have escaped a lab but even dr xi in wuhan wasn't so sure according to nicholas baker dr she wondered could this new virus have come from her own laboratory she checked her records frantically and found no matches that really took a load off my mind she said i had not slept for days the director of the gain of function research in wuhan couldn't sleep because she was terrified that it might be in her lab dr barrick an advocate of gain of function research admits the main problem that the institute of virology has is the outbreak occurred in close proximity what are the odds barrick responded could you rule out a laboratory escape the answer in this case is probably not will you in front of this group categorically say that the kovid 19 could not have occurred through serial passage in a laboratory i do not have any accounting of what the chinese may have done and i'm fully in favor of any further investigation of what went on in china however i will repeat again the nih and niaid categorically has not funded gain of function research to be conducted in the wuhan institute of iran you support it in the u.s we have 11 labs doing it and you have allowed it here we have a committee to do it but the committee is granted every exemption you're you're fooling with mother nature here you're allowing super viruses to be created with a 15 mortality it's very dangerous i think it was a huge mistake to share this with china and it's a huge mistake to allow this to continue in the united states and we should be very careful to investigate where this virus came from i fully agree that you should investigate where the virus came from but again we have not funded gain of function research on this virus in the wuhan institute of virology no matter parsing words your part there was research there was research done with dr she and dr barrack they have collaborated on gain of function research where they enhance the sars virus to infect human airway cells and they did it by merging a new spike protein on it that is gain of function that was joint research between the wuhan institute and dr barrack you can't deny it senator paul your time time has expired dr fatchi i will let you respond to that when we need to move on excuse me i will allow you to respond to that and then we'll move on yeah i mean i just wanted to say we i i don't know how many times i can say it madam chair we did not fund gain of function research to be conducted in the wuhan institute of virology

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Published: Tue May 11 2021