Covid flip-flops, ‘friendship’ with top Chinese scientist — what Anthony Fauci emails reveal
Washington Post, Buzzfeed News and CNN accessed over 3,000 pages of emails, between January and June 2020. Documents show how the top US expert handled the pandemic.
4 June, 2021
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Earlier in January 2020, the director of US’ largest biomedical research facility wrote Fauci suggesting the “unusual features” of the virus may indicate it is “engineered”. It prompted Fauci to say he will reach out through a phone call.
During a Senate hearing on the lab leak theory Monday, Fauci defended Chinese scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, saying there is no guarantee that they have lied about conducting “gain-of-function” research.
Gain of function research entails altering a virus in a way that increases pathogenesis, transmissibility, or host range.
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However, an analysis by BBC points out that Fauci backtracked on health guidance at times.
“He told someone in February 2020 they did not need to wear a mask while travelling. Later, he encouraged people to wear them,” noted the BBC report. This is likely to affirm opinions of conservatives who had accused him of ‘flip-flopping’, said the report.
