Posted on 05/05/2020 4:13:45 AM PDT by knighthawk
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. said in an interview Monday that there is a chance the nation’s top disease doctor, Anthony Fauci, will testify in the Senate next week despite the White House's decision last week to prevent the coronavirus taskforce member from testifying before a House subcommittee.
Schumer, the Senate minority leader, tweeted that the “Senate needs to hear from Dr. Fauci, Dr. Brix, Sec. Mnuchin. We need to know why so many small businesses have had trouble getting loans. We need to know why unemployment insurance checks are failing to get to workers. We need to know we still don’t have enough tests!”
Schumer appeared on “The Rachel Maddow Show” on Monday and said Fauci’s testimony is far from a sure thing, the Hill reported.
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Ignore the squawking little rat
Nah! Squawking before justice comes!
One would hope there will be a reckoning someday similar to what happened to Nazi collaborators in liberated countries. If scum like Schumer and Pelosi are lucky, the worst that will happen to them is they will have their heads shaven.
They figure get him to testify and he will turn on Trump.. and he probably would too.
We need to know why those 2 drs inflated the death by virus numbers. They linked ALL deaths to virus, and even those were inflated.
DR. FAUCI BACKED CONTROVERSIAL WUHAN LAB WITH MILLIONS OF U.S. DOLLARS FOR RISKY CORONAVIRUS RESEARCH
Newsweek 4/28/20
https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan-lab-millions-us-dollars-risky-coronavirus-research-1500741
Dr. Anthony Fauci is an adviser to President Donald Trump and something of an American folk hero for his steady, calm leadership during the pandemic crisis. At least one poll shows that Americans trust Fauci more than Trump on the coronavirus pandemic—and few scientists are portrayed on TV by Brad Pitt.
But just last year, the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the organization led by Dr. Fauci, funded scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and other institutions for work on gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses.
In 2019, with the backing of NIAID, the National Institutes of Health committed $3.7 million over six years for research that included some gain-of-function work. The program followed another $3.7 million, 5-year project for collecting and studying bat coronaviruses, which ended in 2019, bringing the total to $7.4 million.
Many scientists have criticized gain of function research, which involves manipulating viruses in the lab to explore their potential for infecting humans, because it creates a risk of starting a pandemic from accidental release.
SARS-CoV-2 , the virus now causing a global pandemic, is believed to have originated in bats. U.S. intelligence, after originally asserting that the coronavirus had occurred naturally, conceded last month that the pandemic may have originated in a leak from the Wuhan lab. (At this point most scientists say it’s possible—but not likely—that the pandemic virus was engineered or manipulated.)
Dr. Fauci did not respond to Newsweek’s requests for comment. NIH responded with a statement that said in part: “Most emerging human viruses come from wildlife, and these represent a significant threat to public health and biosecurity in the US and globally, as demonstrated by the SARS epidemic of 2002-03, and the current COVID-19 pandemic.... scientific research indicates that there is no evidence that suggests the virus was created in a laboratory.”
The NIH research consisted of two parts. The first part began in 2014 and involved surveillance of bat coronaviruses, and had a budget of $3.7 million. The program funded Shi Zheng-Li, a virologist at the Wuhan lab, and other researchers to investigate and catalogue bat coronaviruses in the wild. This part of the project was completed in 2019.
A second phase of the project, beginning that year, included additional surveillance work but also gain-of-function research for the purpose of understanding how bat coronaviruses could mutate to attack humans. The project was run by EcoHealth Alliance, a non-profit research group, under the direction of President Peter Daszak, an expert on disease ecology. NIH canceled the project just this past Friday, April 24th, Politico reported. Daszak did not immediately respond to Newsweek requests for comment.
The project proposal states: “We will use S protein sequence data, infectious clone technology, in vitro and in vivo infection experiments and analysis of receptor binding to test the hypothesis that % divergence thresholds in S protein sequences predict spillover potential.”
In layman’s terms, “spillover potential” refers to the ability of a virus to jump from animals to humans, which requires that the virus be able to attach to receptors in the cells of humans. SARS-CoV-2, for instance, is adept at binding to the ACE2 receptor in human lungs and other organs.
According to Richard Ebright, an infectious disease expert at Rutgers University, the project description refers to experiments that would enhance the ability of bat coronavirus to infect human cells and laboratory animals using techniques of genetic engineering. In the wake of the pandemic, that is a noteworthy detail.
Ebright, along with many other scientists, has been a vocal opponent of gain-of-function research because of the risk it presents of creating a pandemic through accidental release from a lab.
Dr. Fauci is renowned for his work on the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1990s. Born in Brooklyn, he graduated first in his class from Cornell University Medical College in 1966. As head of NIAID since 1984, he has served as an adviser to every U.S. president since Ronald Reagan.
A decade ago, during a controversy over gain-of-function research on bird-flu viruses, Dr. Fauci played an important role in promoting the work. He argued that the research was worth the risk it entailed because it enables scientists to make preparations, such as investigating possible anti-viral medications, that could be useful if and when a pandemic occurred.
The work in question was a type of gain-of-function research that involved taking wild viruses and passing them through live animals until they mutate into a form that could pose a pandemic threat. Scientists used it to take a virus that was poorly transmitted among humans and make it into one that was highly transmissible—a hallmark of a pandemic virus. This work was done by infecting a series of ferrets, allowing the virus to mutate until a ferret that hadn’t been deliberately infected contracted the disease.
The work entailed risks that worried even seasoned researchers. More than 200 scientists called for the work to be halted. The problem, they said, is that it increased the likelihood that a pandemic would occur through a laboratory accident.
Dr. Fauci defended the work. “[D]etermining the molecular Achilles’ heel of these viruses can allow scientists to identify novel antiviral drug targets that could be used to prevent infection in those at risk or to better treat those who become infected,” wrote Fauci and two co-authors in the Washington Post on December 30, 2011. “Decades of experience tells us that disseminating information gained through biomedical research to legitimate scientists and health officials provides a critical foundation for generating appropriate countermeasures and, ultimately, protecting the public health.”
Nevertheless, in 2014, under pressure from the Obama administration, the National of Institutes of Health instituted a moratorium on the work, suspending 21 studies.
Three years later, though—in December 2017—the NIH ended the moratorium and the second phase of the NIAID project, which included the gain-of-function research, began. The NIH established a framework for determining how the research would go forward: scientists have to get approval from a panel of experts, who would decide whether the risks were justified.
The reviews were indeed conducted—but in secret, for which the NIH has drawn criticism. In early 2019, after a reporter for Science magazine discovered that the NIH had approved two influenza research projects that used gain of function methods, scientists who oppose this kind of research excoriated the NIH in an editorial in the Washington Post.
“We have serious doubts about whether these experiments should be conducted at all,” wrote Tom Inglesby of Johns Hopkins University and Marc Lipsitch of Harvard. “[W]ith deliberations kept behind closed doors, none of us will have the opportunity to understand how the government arrived at these decisions or to judge the rigor and integrity of that process.”
We need to know why so many small businesses have had trouble getting loans.
Because of you and pelousi
We need to know why unemployment insurance checks are failing to get to workers.
Because the blue states including NY told trump to scratch when he wanted the unemployment checks to come form the feds, “we will do this” their old antiquated systems crashed, lazy a##es working behind those antiquated computers and state politicians desires to keep the country in dire straights as long as possible IS WHY THEY DONT HAVE THIER UNEMPLOYMENT CHECKS
Hey Chuckles, how about offering something positive right now and hold off a bit on your upcoming major investigations you know you’ll demand.
I feel he would throw Trump under the bus. Those “thumbs up” signals to his comrades in the press pool at the briefings tells me a lot
In their minds, a pandemic like this only happens once in a lifetime, so being as they are with letting no good crisis go to waste, they want to engage Alinsky tactics as he explained them in the Bible of the Left, "Rules for Radicals":
As Alinsky foretold (as related to this current 'crisis') in his preface to "Rules for Radicals" “...Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future..."
We should never forget-the Left does not want to FIX a problem. They DON'T WANT a bad situation to get better. As Barack Obama, an unapologetic Alinskyite, from Chicago, and trained as a community organizer using the EXACT principles Alinsky outlined (and I quote Alinsky again)
"...The despair is there, now it is up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change..."
This isn't just rhetoric. This is what every single one of those despicable, bloody traitors...Clinton, Pelosi, Schumer, every one of them, they believe it.
Let no good crisis go to waste.
We need to know why unemployment insurance checks are failing to get to workers.
A state issue, no?
The democrat party. They dump the gas, light the match, block the roads and then scream that the other side is at fault for not getting the fire department there fast enough.
Case in point: they held up for over a week the replenishment of the SBA funding. Now Schumer wants to know where the money is for small businesses and why they haven’t received their loans.
Classic.
I renew my call on Schumer to end himself ASAP.
So what do these people have to do with small businesses not getting small loans? or stimulus checks? Man, I really DON’T LIKE this smarmy POS.
Because they are all in cahoots together with the Chicoms/Gates/Soros/DNC....
Most likely Fauci does not show up because of.....THIS.
He would not like some GOP Senator using his time to grill him on this matter.
Barry was a snake in the swamp from day one. I do have hope he and they will be prosecuted.. but the honest truth is.. no one has the guts to do it.. and not prosecuted just reaps more and worse.
I held my own flesh and blood kids more accountable for their actions than Congress or judges or the justice dept , has ever or will ever do to the guilty.
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