The senator told « Hannity » that he will contact the DoJ, following his heated exchange with Dr. Fauci,
Rand Paul has said he will push for a criminal probe into Dr. Anthony Fauci, following his heated exchange with the infectious diseases chief at a Senate hearing on Tuesday. The Kentucky senator claims that the infectious diseases chief lied before Congress about funding for a Chinese lab that some have linked to the COVID-19 pandemic. Paul agues that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded so-called « gain of function » research—a process involves enhancing a virus in a lab to study its potential impact in the real world—at a lab in Wuhan. In a stern response, Fauci said: « Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about. » The the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director also told the Senate hearing that the research Paul referred to « was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain-of-function. » NIH and NIAID have said they supported grants to research viruses in bats and mammals, but had never approved any grant supporting gain-of-function research on coronaviruses that would have increased their transmissibility or lethality for humans.
