Key unanswered issues on COVID-19 and Dr. Fauci as top doc bids farewell
Fauci, who has led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, has long cast doubt on the idea that SARS-CoV-2 originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, even as he insists he is open-minded about the virus's origins, and he has repeatedly insisted that the National Institutes of Health did not fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab despite evidence showing U.S. tax dollars flowed to the Chinese institute for bat coronavirus experiments.
Some scientists consulting with the U.S. government early in the pandemic believed COVID-19 originating from a lab in Wuhan was possible or even likely, but emails show Fauci and then-NIH Director Francis Collins worked to shut the hypothesis down. “I don't know what that means,” Fauci claimed. “It isn't that I agree or disagree. ... I mean, if ‘cover-up’ is not allowing people to come in and look at all the data, that's not a cover-up, that's not being transparent. … ‘Cover-up’ means you know something and you're hiding it.”
The claim that former President Donald Trump immediately took an anti-China stance related to the COVID-19 outbreak is false, as the former president commended China for its coronavirus response more than a dozen times in January and February 2020, including saying the United States appreciated Beijing’s “transparency” on Jan. 24 and that Chinese leader Xi Jinping was “working very hard” and “doing it very professionally” on Feb. 18.
The doctor argued that “the Chinese, not necessarily the scientists that we know and we have dealt with and collaborated with productively for decades but the whole establishment, a political and other establishment in China, even when there's nothing at all to hide, they act secretive.” He added, “We need to have an open dialogue with their scientists and our scientists … because these are scientists that we've known for decades, and we've collaborated with them.
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