Hugh Hewitt will NEVER ask Dr. Fraus a tough question.....sad.
Ok, Ann here is the part of Hugh Hewitts interview with Fauchi on your question and mine.
Hughhewitt.com, is where you can read the whole interview.
HH: All right. My very last question is high science. It has to do with the Wuhan Lab at which this is expected of escaping. They were doing something called gain of function research. I know you know what that means. It took me a long time to get my lawyer arms around it. Did the NIH support gain of function research? It sounds very dangerous to me.
AF: No, we don’t. we have guidelines now that do not support that kind of research in those circumstances. We support some form of gain of function which is appropriate. We did not support gain of function research there.
HH: Do you think that had something to contribute to the, do you believe in the escape from the lab theory?
AF: No, I mean, I think, obviously, Hugh, you can never rule that out completely. I mean, it’s just one of those things you can’t. But the evidence that, of the sequencing of the virus in bats makes it very, very unlikely. They were doing things that were interpreted as being gained of function that I don’t think fell under the real strict category of that. But we, years ago, Hugh, made a policy that in order to, before you support any gain of function, it’s got to go through multiple reviews that go up to the Department of Health and Human Services. So years and years ago, we were doing, we were supporting among our grantees mostly in influenza, not in COVID-19, mostly in influenza. But then because of concerns, the constraints that are put on gain of function experiments are really rather stringent.
HH: So an allegation was made that the NIAI had supported the Wuhan lab gain of function research. That’s not true?
AF: We supported by a subcontractor. We gave a grant to a person in the United States who subcontracted a collaboration with Wuhan, but that was not gain of function research.
HH: Okay, very important to get that. Okay, I have time for one last question, Dr. I am not vaccinated. Can I go see my grandkids?
AF: Yes, as long as your grandkids are healthy and don’t have an underlying condition that would make them really seriously at risk if they got infected. If they’re healthy young grandkids, you can go see them without a mask in their home. Have fun.