Fri Mar 10, 2023 – 6:12 pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Prominent virologists who took seriously the possibility of COVID-19 leaking from a lab early in the pandemic received millions of dollars in National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants amid reconsidering their opinions, according to a records review conducted by the Washington Examiner.
In early 2020, Dr. Kristian Andersen of the Scripps Institute and Dr. Robert Garry of Tulane University notified former White House COVID adviser and National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director Dr. Anthony Fauci that they took seriously suspicions that COVID first escaped from China’s embattled Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
“[O]ne has to look really closely at all the sequences to see that some of the features (potentially) look engineered,” Andersen told Fauci on January 31, 2020. COVID’s genome, further, seemed “inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory.”
In March, however, both signed onto a paper entitled “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” (Proximal Origin), which concluded the lab-leak hypothesis was not “plausible.” LifeSiteNews has previously reported that Fauci himself had previously unknown input into the final draft.
The Examiner’s review found that, from 2020 to 2022, research projects led by
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