Fauci testifies on COVID-19 origins, US response: Live updates – New York Post

During the hearing, Dr. Anthony Fauci has repeatedly denied that the NIH funded gain-of-function research on SARS and MERS viruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).

Last month, NIH principal deputy director Dr. Lawrence Tabak testified before the subcommittee that the experiments had occurred but denied that they were risky.

The potentially dangerous research, which received more than $500,000 from US taxpayers since 2014, resulted in a modified virus that was 10,000 times more infectious, NIH disclosed to Congress in 2021.

EcoHealth Alliance received that money and gave it as a subaward to WIV, and the scientific nonprofit's president revealed in testimony to Congress last month that he had not received any virus sequences from the Wuhan lab since before the pandemic.

The experiments violated the terms of the grant, NIH found, and EcoHealth has since been proposed for debarment. WIV was barred from receiving US funding last year.

Another proposal from EcoHealth, which was unfunded, has since been cited as "smoking gun" evidence that the virus engineered at WIV.

EcoHealth president Dr. Peter Daszak also revealed in his testimony that he has yet to receive sequences of viruses from the lab since before the pandemic.

NIH didnt go there; they didnt get the reports that they needed," Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) pressed Fauci. "How would you know?

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