Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., details efforts from Senate Republicans to investigate Dr. Anthony Fauci over the origins of COVID-19 and calls to pause gain-of-function research.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., weighs what the U.S. could use to free Paul Whelan following the release of Brittney Griner for Viktor Bout and discusses GOP calls for stopping gain-of-function research., specifically on his connection to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. " on Thursday to discuss his ongoing search for answers and accountability.
"We're not done with him yet," Paul said."I think Dr. Fauci actually made one of the worst judgments in modern medical history by funding for over a decade of dangerous gain-of-function research, which many of us believe leaked from the lab, inadvertently." Foreground: Dr. Anthony Fauci; background: Members of the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus arrive at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on Feb. 3, 2021.
Gain-of-function research often includes intentionally altering viruses to be more pathogenic or transmissible as a means to develop preemptive treatments for deadly diseases. Senate Republicans argue this research, which Fauci denies the National Institutes of Health funded on coronavirus in Wuhan, could be responsible for an outbreak at the lab, leading to the global pandemic.
In 2014, the Obama administration paused new funding of gain-of-function research to"assess the potential risks and benefits." However, it was reinstated by the NIH in 2017.
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