Dr Fauci offers a defense of U.S. funding of research at Wuhan lab.

Worth mentioning (not mentioned below) - the Wuhan Lab has the highest level of clearance for this kind of research. The only lab in China with the highest clearance The institute's lab has a biosafety level of 4 (known as BSL-4, the highest level), .

Anthony Fauci defended U.S. funding of research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, in an interview on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday. Host Jake Tapper noted that some experts consider research carried out by the institute, including on bat coronaviruses, to be potentially dangerous. Tapper asked whether Fauci thought the U.S. should continue to collaborate with laboratories such as the Wuhan Institute, especially given their supervision by the Chinese government.

Fauci responded that the research in question intended to complete a “survey of what was going on among the bat population, because everyone in the world was trying to figure out what the original source” of the 2002 SARS epidemic was.

The research, however, didn’t factor in “the fact that you have an oppressive Chinese government that won’t allow transparency,” Tapper countered. “Going forward, are you still confident?”

“If your question Jake is, looking forward, are we going to be very careful about the research that we do, well, we have always been very careful. And, looking forward, we will continue to be very careful in what we do,” Fauci said.

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Well that was fascinating...because you see...back in May....he had this to say:

Dr. Anthony Fauci was absolutely adamant that the National Institutes of Health has never funded dangerous research on bat viruses in the Chinese lab suspected of being the source of the COVID-19 pandemic, when he was questioned by Republican Sen. Rand Paul two weeks ago.

“Senator Paul, with all due respect, you are entirely and completely incorrect that the NIH has not ever and does not now fund ‘gain of function’ research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” Fauci said in the fiery Senate hearing on May 11.

He couldn’t have been more certain.

Until he wasn’t certain a few hours later.

That very afternoon, Fauci admitted to “a very minor collaboration as part of a subcontract of a grant we had a collaboration with some Chinese scientists,” during an appearance at Poynter.org’s “festival of fact checking.”

It’s like being a little bit pregnant. READ THE VERY LENGTHY ARTICLE AT https://nypost.com/2021/05/26/enough-of-faucis-lies-devine/