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Another snip I found interesting because it shows even Newsweek think Fauci is being very careful with his wording:

Paul: You don’t think inserting a bat-virus spike protein that [Baric] got from the Wuhan Institute into the SARS virus is gain-of-function? You would be in a minority because at least two scientists have signed a statement from the Cambridge Working Group saying that it is gain-of-function.

False, says Marc Lipsitch, the Harvard epidemiologist and one of the original members of the Cambridge Working Group. “It is just a fabrication to say we have made any statement as a group about work in Wuhan.”

Fauci: Well, it is not. If you look at the grant and you look at the progress reports, it is not gain-of-function, despite the fact that people tweet that and write about it.

In an interview last year, Baric maintained that some work that involves enhancing viruses in the lab turns out to produce viruses that are actually less viable than what experimenters started with, so they haven’t necessarily “gained” any “function.” This is probably what Dr. Fauci is referring to.

Baric maintained that some work that involves enhancing viruses in the lab turns out to produce viruses that are actually less viable than what experimenters started with, so they haven’t necessarily “gained” any “function.”

yeah??? well, it’s not for a lack of trying

As I noted in this comment last week

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3959012/posts?page=27#27

Fauxi didn’t technically lie. It’s not about ‘gain of function’ (GOF), but GOF research of concern (GOFROC).

It’s Newsweak; spdr.