'He's Not Going To Answer The Question': GOP Senator Presses Fauci On COVID-19 Origin Theory

senator marshall thank you madam chair my first question for dr wolinski as a physician we always want to be able to know and discuss the benefits and risk of anything that we're prescribing including a vaccine it's estimated that 40 maybe 50 percent of children have already had the covet virus what are the additional benefits to the vaccine to a child who's already had the virus i think it very much depends on what that variant that child might have had whether they could potentially be infected or re-infected um and you know one thing i just want to note with the children is um i i think we fall into this flawed thinking of saying that only 400 of these 600 000 deaths from covet 19 have been in children children are not supposed to die and so 400 is is a huge amount for uh for a seas a respiratory season thank you thank you dr woodcock how many children under the age of 18 without a pre-existing condition a significant health condition have died from covet in this country i don't i don't have that at my fingertips i'm sorry doctor over for over 400 without pre without that i don't so i think the answer is probably zero so i think if you if you take a deep dive most of the children that have died i had some type of annoying health condition dr fauci in my hand is a three three-dimensional printing of the covet spike something that's certainly a scientific um just just baffles me in so many ways that it's composed of two units as you know there's an s2 subunit and an s1 and i'd like to talk you to talk about the s2 subunit for a second can you explain the significance of the furon cleavage site the double arginine cgg codon if you would and and how that works clinically for us yeah the few thank you for that question senator the furin cleavage site is a site of a set of amino acids which is at the point where the enzyme furan can cleave it so that the virus can then bind to the receptor cell and then enter the cell so it is seen on a number of viruses uh it's been seen on it's on the source cov2 and it's also seen on other beta corona viruses you asked also about the double cgg codon right that is a codon again that is unusual but it is also seen on a number of beta coronaviruses it's it is not a very common uh uh codon for the amino acid in question but it is seen in coronaviruses dr david baltimore a nobel laureate i'll quote him here when i first saw the furin cleavage site in the viral sequence with this arginine codons i said to my wife it was the smoking gun for the origin of the virus these features make a powerful challenge to the idea of a natural origin for sars to and again this is nobel laureate dr david baltimore saying saying this right would you agree or disagree with dr baltimore well dr baltimore who is an extraordinarily uh accomplished scientist has backtracked on that statement and says i wish i had not used the word smoking gun when it was pointed out to him that he actually this is seen in a number of coronaviruses including one of the common cold coronaviruses so i believe if you would ask do you disagree with him well i i i agree with his second statement where he backtracked and said he wished he had not yet so you disagree with his first statement though and he disagrees with his first statement so i could answer the question we also have the s1 sub unit and i refer to the timeline behind me here that there was a moratorium placed for viral gain of function in 2014 and i think you'll agree with me that the nih funded research that led to this an s-1 spike that looks very similar not exactly to what's on the cobot 19 spike um what are you referring to senator can you please be more specific yeah so i'm talking about the s1 sub unit of the current cova 19 spike what what about it i'm i mean are you talking about an experiment are you talking about a paper that was published so i'm talking about viral research that was done using nih funding with the north carolina lab and dr she developed this s1 subunit spike that looks exactly like what we have on the current kova 19 spike yeah is that not true no i i'm not sure exactly what you're referring to are you referring to the paper of barrick and she and nature immunology is that would you refer i need to know specifically so dr barry can she printed uh studies on the this s-1 unit that was basically the development of the key to the door that was specifically took a the original sars virus and made it so it would bond to the human lung cells no there was no if you're referring senator to gain a function by the definition okay that's not my question well would you would you agree that that but the spike that was developed there is what's also on the current yeah but that's it that's irrelevant to anything until you have a context in which you're putting it you're talking about an s-1 and a spike in what context if you're talking about a paper that was written by them but you agree or disagree that it's the same spike i'm not sure what you're talking about senator i'm really not sure what you're talking about okay thank you all right thank you uh senator casey thank you chairman i want to thank the the

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Published: Sun Jul 25 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/Physical_City1457]

“Are you referring to the paper?”

“What paper, I said S1 spike and you interrupted me without me even asking you a question. Wait till I ask you direct questions like if your gain of function created SARSCOV2 before claiming you don’t know what I’m talking about.”

[u/Black7057]

"It depends on what your definition of IS is"