During a Senate hearing, Sen Rand Paul Paul seemed to suggest that Dr. Anthony Fauci lied to Congress in previous testimony in which he said that the NIAID had “never funded gain-of-function research in China.”
“I have never lied before the Congress, and I do not retract that statement,” Fauci responded to Paul. “The research you are referencing there was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain of function.”
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Fauci added: “You do not know what you are talking about quite frankly and I want to say that officially.”
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