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5 takeaways on Fauci’s hostile Senate hearing, GOP contempt threats
The former NIAID director declined to answer Republican questions about COVID-19 origins and records, prompting a tense hearing and his attorney’s removal.
- On Wednesday, NIH Director Anthony Fauci appeared under subpoena before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, invoking the Fifth Amendment 111 times when questioned about COVID-19 origins.
- Chairman Rand Paul utilized an 'avalanche of new documents' obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests to investigate discrepancies between Fauci's public pandemic messaging and private communications regarding COVID-19.
- Papers in the scientific literature, including a 2015 Nature Medicine study, show the Wuhan Institute specialized in manipulating novel coronaviruses by splicing proteins from bat viruses found 300 feet underground onto SARS backbones.
- Fauci privately noted in a Feb. 3, 2020, diary entry that the wet market was a 'superspreader event' rather than the pandemic's source, contradicting his public messaging at the time.
- Tensions escalated as Chairman Rand Paul ejected Fauci's attorney from the chamber, while Republican members accused the former director of using the pandemic to enrich himself and manipulate scientific narratives.
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·Irving, United States
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The accusations against Dr. Anthony Fauci, once the nation's leading infectious disease expert, have some experts worrying that these events may further erode public health staffing in the U.S.
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