Fauci funded the development of the Fauci/China virus.
Actually, it's much worse than that!
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) was then and is is now directed and managed by Dr. Anthony Fauci.
This article describes the research (that actually used gain of function techniques) was published in 2016 This NIAID project, which actually created the chimeric virus that likely ultimately became Covid-19, was a joint effort between NIAID and WIV (Shi Zhengli, director of Wuhan Lab)
From the first paragraph of this article:
“This manuscript describes efforts to extend surveillance beyond sequence analysis, constructing chimeric and full-length zoonotic coronaviruses to evaluate emergence potential. Focusing on SARS-like virus sequences isolated from Chinese horseshoe bats, the results indicate a significant threat posed by WIV1-CoV. Both full-length and chimeric WIV1-CoV readily replicated efficiently in human airway cultures and in vivo, suggesting capability of direct transmission to humans.”
And from the results summary in this article:
Using the SARS-CoV infectious clone as a template (7), we designed and synthesized a full-length infectious clone of WIV1-CoV consisting of six plasmids that could be enzymatically cut, ligated together, and electroporated into cells to rescue replication competent progeny virions (Fig. S1A). In addition to the full-length clone, we also produced WIV1-CoV chimeric virus that replaced the SARS spike with the WIV1 spike within the mouse-adapted backbone (WIV1-MA15, Fig. S1B). WIV1-MA15 incorporates the original binding and entry capabilities of WIV1-CoV, but maintains the backbone changes to mouse-adapted SARS-CoV. Importantly, WIV1-MA15 does not incorporate the Y436H mutation in spike that is required for SARS-MA15 pathogenesis (8). Following electroporation into Vero cells, robust stock titers were recovered from both chimeric WIV1-MA15 and WIV1-CoV.
And the connection to Wuhan Labs in China is highlighted in the Acknowledgments:
We thank Dr. Zhengli-Li Shi of the Wuhan Institute of Virology for access to bat CoV sequences and plasmid of WIV1-CoV spike protein. Research was supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and the National Institute of Aging of the NIH under Awards U19AI109761 and U19AI107810 (to R.S.B.), AI1085524 (to W.A.M.), and F32AI102561 and K99AG049092 (to V.D.M.). Human airway epithelial cell cultures were supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease under Award NIH DK065988 (to S.H.R.). Support for the generation of the mice expressing human ACE2 was provided by NIH Grants AI076159 and AI079521 (to A.C.S.).
This article was discussed at length in a previous thread, and there is a lot more detail there.
He is a pawn of the CCP, who is being used to infect our country with so many lies and half-truths that—like the spike proteins of Covid—are dangerous enough to weaken and eventually destroy our national resolve to remain a FREE REPUBLIC!
Seeing his face on my TV has now put its screen in real danger of being PUNCHED!