"Dr. Rand Paul, the senator from Kentucky, asked Dr. Anthony Fauci point-blank about taxpayer money funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology. You know, the origin of COVID-19.Paul brought up function research, “which works on making pathogens deadlier or more easily transmissible.” He then “alleged that a U.S. virologist had been working with the Chinese institute on such research and said it was funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH).”