Mon Mar 6, 2023 – 5:35 pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Former White House COVID adviser and National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director Dr. Anthony Fauci commissioned and approved a paper for the express purpose of undermining suspicions that COVID-19 escaped from a laboratory in China, according to emails obtained by Republicans on the U.S. House of Representatives’ Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.
A committee memo dated March 5 reports that on February 4, 2020, just three days after first being warned in a conference call of the possibility that COVID may have leaked from China’s embattled Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), Fauci and former National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Dr. Francis Collins were given a draft of a paper entitled “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” (Proximal Origin), which had been authored by four other participants of the February 1 call.
Two months later, Collins “express[ed] dismay” that Proximal Origin did not do enough to discredit the theory, but Fauci still publicly cited it as debunking it.
“New evidence released by the Select Subcommittee today suggests that Dr. Fauci ‘prompted’ the drafting of” the paper to “disprove” the lab-leak theory,
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