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SENATOR RAND PAUL IS SET TO BECOME CHAIR OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS COME JANUARY AND HE SAYS HIS MAIN MISSION IS TO “UNCOVER THE TRUTH ABOUT THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC,” THE NEW YORK POST REPORTS.

SINCE THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC HIT THE UNITED STATES IN 2020 – SENATOR PAUL HAS BEEN SUBPOENAING AND QUESTIONING THE HEADS OF GOVERNMENT AGENCIES – SUCH AS DOCTOR ANTHONY FAUCI, THE FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

FAUCI AND PAUL HAVE GOTTEN INTO SEVERAL HEATED EXCHANGES OVER THE YEARS ABOUT GAIN-OF-FUNCTION RESEARCH AT THE WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY WHERE SENATOR PAUL BELIEVES COVID-19 ORIGINATED.

“THERE’S THE PREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE NOW POINTS TOWARDS THIS COMING FROM THE LAB AND WHAT YOU’VE DONE IS CHANGE THE DEFINITION ON YOUR WEBSITE TO TRY TO COVER YOUR ASS, BASICALLY. THAT’S WHAT YOU’VE DONE,” SENATOR PAULD TOLD DR. FAUCI DURING A HEARING ON NOVEMBER 4, 2021. “YOU’VE CHANGED THE WEBSITE TO TRY TO HAVE A NEW DEFINITION THAT DOESN’T INCLUDE THE RISKY RESEARCH THAT’’S GOING ON. UNTIL YOU ADMIT THAT IT’S RISKY, WE’RE NOT GOING TO GET ANYWHERE. YOU HAVE TO ADMIT THAT THIS RESEARCH IS RISKY. THE NIH HAS NOW REBUKED THEM. YOUR OWN AGENCY HAS REBUKED THEM. BUT THE THING IS, YOU’RE STILL UNWILLING TO ADMIT THEY GAINED AND FUNCTIONED WHEN THEY SAY THEY BECAME SICKER. THEY GAINED IN LETHALITY. IT’S A NEW VIRUS. THAT’S NOT GAIN-OF-FUNTION?”

“ACCORDING TO THE DEFINITION THAT’S CURRENTLY OPERABLE,” DR. FAUCI BEGAN. “YOU NOW SENATOR, LET’S MAKE IT CLEAR FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ARE LISTENING. THE CURRENT DEFINITION WAS DONE OVER A 2 TO 3 YEAR PERIOD BY OUTSIDE BODIES INCLUDING THE NSABB, TWO CONFERENCES BY THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE ON DECEMBER 2014, MARCH 2016. WE COMMISSIONED EXTERNAL RISK BENEFIT ASSESSMENT. AND THEN ON JANUARY OF 2017, THE OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY OF THE WHITE HOUSE ISSUED THE CURRENT POLICY.”

“AND COINCIDENTALLY,” SENATOR PAUL INTERRUPTED. “THE DEFINITION APPEARED ON THE SAME DAY THE NIH SAID THAT ‘YES, THERE WAS GAIN-OF-FUNCTION IN WUHAN’ THE SAME DAY THE DEFINITION APPEARED, THE NEW DEFINITION TO TRY AND DEFINE A WAY OF WHAT’S GOING ON IN WUHAN. UNTIL YOU ACCEPT IT AND ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY, WE ARE NOT GOING TO GET ANYWHERE CLOSE TO TRYING TO PREVENT ANOTHER LAB LEAK OF THIS DANGEROUS SORT OF EXPERIMENT.”

SENATOR PAUL, WHO IS ALSO A MEDICAL DOCTOR, HAS EXPLAINED SEVERAL TIMES OVER THE YEARS THAT GAIN-OF-FUNCTION RESEARCH IS WHEN MEDICAL RESEARCHERS ATTEMPT TO MAKE A VIRUS EVEN STRONGER THAN WHAT IS FOUND IN NATURE.

SENATOR PAUL BELIEVES THE COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS ORIGINATED FROM THE WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY WHICH WAS RECEIVING FUNDING FROM DR. FAUCI’S NIH AGENCY FOR BAT CORONAVIRUS RESEARCH PROJECTS.

SENATOR PAUL HAS ACCUSED DR. FAUCI OF KNOWING THAT GAIN-OF-FUNCTION RESEARCH WAS HAPPENING AT THE WUHAN LAB WITH U.S. GRANT DOLLARS AND THAT HE SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.

“I THINK WE’RE ON THE CUSP OF, REALLY, THE BEGINNING OF UNCOVERING WHAT HAPPENED WITH COVID,” PAUL TOLD THE POST.

FAUCI HAS REPEATEDLY SAID THE NIH NEVER FUNDED GAIN-OF-FUNCTION RESEARCH AT THE WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY.

FAUCI RESIGNED FROM THE NIH IN EARLY 2023.

THE NEWS ABOUT SENATOR PAUL COMES AS THE HOUSE OVERSIGHT AND ACCOUNTABILITY COMMITTEE’S COVID-19 PANEL HELD ITS FINAL HEARING THURSDAY, FOCUSING ON WAYS TO PREPARE FOR A FUTURE PANDEMIC.