Scientist Kristian Anderson told Fauci SARS-CoV-2 has “unusual features” that “potentially look engineered”.
Not long after this email, the scientists authored a piece insisting the virus was natural and Fauci said the same publicly. This is a massive cover-up.
(Buzzfeed FOIA)
This email also says the genome of SARS-CoV-2 appears “inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory”.
Yet, other scientists who raised this same point were shut down and ignored, while journalists investigating it were accused of peddling a debunked conspiracy theory
Fauci misled the public by failing to say the virus may have been the result of gain-of-function experiments at a Wuhan lab.
No one knows more about this research than him - including the risk of a pandemic.
But he never once mentioned it during conversations in the Oval.
Fauci wrote in 2012 that gain-of-function research could spark a pandemic but he felt the benefits of it outweighed the risks.
Now we learn he knew about the unusual features of Covid-19 early last year but didn’t say a word.
This is a monumental cover-up. He needs to resign.
It is incomprehensible for an official charged with protecting the public health of Americans to decide a pandemic is a risk he is willing to take.
He covered-up a possible lab origin not just from the public but from the most senior White House national security officials.
How can Biden possibly keep as his presidential adviser someone who was willing to risk a pandemic to conduct gain-of-function research?
Research deemed so risky the Obama admin hit pause on it in 2014 before Fauci lifted that quietly in 2017.