Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, clashed once again on Tuesday in televised testimony before a Senate committee about the nation’s response to Covid-19.
As in the past, the argument centered on any role the National Institutes of Health — which funds the institute Fauci runs — played in funding so-called “gain of function” research at the lab in Wuhan, China where some have speculated the virus may have been engineered.Senator Paul began his allotted time referencing a Chinese research paper that he said is proof the NIH was funding such research.
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