Miranda Devine writes,
Tinkering with a virus in the lab to make it more infectious to humans is the very definition of “gain-of-function” research, as stated by the US Department of Health and Human Services: “Research that improves the ability of a pathogen to cause disease.”
Fauci insisted before Congress in May and again in July that the National Institutes of Health never funded this sort of research. But, regardless of how Fauci personally defines the term “gain of function,” the upshot is that the Frankenstein research conducted in Wuhan with American money has been fingered as the most likely source of the virus that has killed millions of people.
Fauci could have explained to Congress, as he did in a 2011 Washington Post op-ed, that “creating a dangerous virus in the laboratory is a risk worth taking.” That was an establishment scientific position until 2015 when the Obama administration, under pressure from scientists worried about a lab leak of a deadly virus, placed a pause on the research in the United States.
He could have been open and honest with the American people. But instead, he denied the undeniable, obfuscated and used sly debating tricks to avoid owning up to his agency’s knowledge and funding of the Chinese research.
If the intelligence community knew about the dangerous research going on at Wuhan and was directing funding to it through Daszak, then it is complicit in a coverup over COVID-19.
If the American government played any part in the research that led to the lab leak that likely caused the pandemic, the world needs to know.
Read more here: https://nypost.com/2021/09/08/covering-up-faucis-role-in-covid-leak-devine/
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