Thread by @TyCardon

@CalebJHull Fauci sent Hugh Auchincloss the same paper @RandPaul referenced at the hearing today via email on Feb 1, 2020. The name of the attachment: “Baric, Shi et al - Nature medicine - SARS Gain of function.pdf” 1/

@CalebJHull @RandPaul Auchincloss’s reply a few hours later is also telling. “The paper you sent me says the experiments were performed before the gain of function pause but have since been reviewed and approved by NIH.” 2/

@CalebJHull @RandPaul Neither Fauci nor Auchincloss seem concerned that the experiments with the chimeric SH014 recombinant viruses had been wrongly classified as “gain of function” in the paper, and no corrections to the Acknowledgments section were ever made. 3/

@CalebJHull @RandPaul A corrigendum was issued, however, on November 20, 2015 stating that the authors had failed to acknowledge a funding source: “USAID-EPT-PREDICT funding from EcoHealth, to Z.-L.S.” And who might Z.-L.S. be? Zhengli-Li Shi of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, of course. 4/

@CalebJHull @RandPaul Fauci is lying his ass off because he knows @RandPaul has him dead to rights. Fauci absolutely lied to Congress by claiming that “the NIH has not ever, and does not now, Fund gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” 5/