Fauci resigns in disgrace as CDC admits to lying about Covid lockdowns.
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@Greyparrot
CDC admits it mishandled COVID pandemic
4,387 views Aug 18, 2022 - 2 MINUTES AND 14 SECONDS
What exactly is it that Fauci did wrong?
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@RationalMadman
Lied about gain of function (the creation of Covid) and lied about his ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
It's not just a problem with Fauci, it's a problem with all government scientists being paid to confirm whatever the government pays them to confirm, regardless of the science.
REPUBLICANS SPIN NIH LETTER about CORONAVIRUS GAIN-of-FUNCTION RESEARCH
By Jessica McDonald
Posted on October 26, 2021
Republicans say a letter from a National Institutes of Health official is an admission that the agency funded so-called gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses in China, with some falsely linking the work to the pandemic coronavirus. But the research, which the NIH maintains is not gain-of-function, could not have led to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
On Oct. 20, the Republican staff of the House Oversight and Reform Committee released a letter from NIH Principal Deputy Director Lawrence A. Tabak responding to an inquiry about a grant awarded to EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S.-based scientific nonprofit focused on pandemic prevention and conservation.
The grant — which was awarded in 2014 and renewed in 2019 before it was canceled in April 2020 — has been the subject of much controversy. It assessed the potential for bat coronaviruses in China to spillover and infect people and included some experiments mixing and matching elements of different viruses to better understand them. It also involved a collaboration with scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
In the letter, Tabak said EcoHealth Alliance had violated the terms of its grant by not immediately reporting an unexpected experimental result in which mice became sicker when infected with a modified coronavirus.
Republicans were quick to interpret the letter as an admission that the agency had funded gain-of-function research.
In commentary accompanying the shared letter, the committee said on Twitter that the NIH “confirmed today EcoHealth and the WIV conducted GOF research on bat coronaviruses” and that NIH was “lied to” by EcoHealth.
Other conservative media outlets echoed these statements, adding that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, “lied” about the funding.
As we’ll explain, whether or not the experiments count as “gain-of-function” — research in which a virus or other pathogen is modified to become more virulent or infectious to humans — is up for debate. The NIH has said they do not qualify under its criteria and reiterated that position after the release of Tabak’s letter; other experts have expressed a range of views. There is no evidence that Fauci knowingly gave false information or misled anyone.
Some Republicans, however, went further, using the letter to falsely link the NIH-funded research to the COVID-19 pandemic. In an Oct. 21 interview on Fox’s Ingraham Angle, Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the ranking member of the committee, erroneously said that the NIH letter “proves all along that this virus was started in the Wuhan lab.”
The letter does not prove that. In fact, it goes to great lengths to explicitly state the opposite, noting that the viruses used in the experiments are “decades removed from SARS-CoV-2 evolutionarily” and that they “could not have been the source of SARS-CoV-2.”
Previously, other Republicans, including Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, have at times falsely insinuated that the work could have led to the creation of SARS-CoV-2. Paul got into a heated debate with Fauci in July when both men accused the other of lying.
The falsely suggestive hashtag #FauciLiedPeopleDied also started to appear on Twitter after the letter was posted on the platform.
The EcoHealth Alliance experiments have nothing to do with the COVID-19 pandemic and did not produce SARS-CoV-2, the NIH says.
“Analysis of published genomic data and other documents from the grantee demonstrate that the naturally occurring bat coronaviruses studied under the NIH grant are genetically far distant from SARS-CoV-2 and could not possibly have caused the COVID-19 pandemic,” NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins said in an Oct. 20 statement, referring to an analysis posted to the NIAID’s website. “Any claims to the contrary are demonstrably false.”
The analysis shows that the viruses used in the EcoHealth Alliance experiments share only around 80% of their genomes with SARS-CoV-2 — a huge difference when making these comparisons.
Much more similar viruses that share 96% to 97% of their genomes with SARS-CoV-2 have been identified. These include BANAL-52, a bat coronavirus found in Laos and reported in September, and RaTG13, a virus sequence collected by the Wuhan Institute of Virology that has also been the subject of much misplaced speculation.
But even these, the analysis explains, are still much too dissimilar to have given rise to SARS-CoV-2.
Setting aside the specific experiments performed with the grant funds, there is no evidence SARS-CoV-2 came from a lab, and many experts say that it’s virtually impossible for it to have been engineered.
In the letter, Tabak describes an alleged grant reporting infraction related to an experiment the agency said was conducted in 2018-2019 and related in a progress report EcoHealth submitted in August 2021.
The experiment, Tabak said, tested whether spike proteins from bat coronaviruses were capable of binding to human ACE2, the receptor that the viruses use to enter cells, in mice.
The experiment is similar to research published in PLOS Pathogens in 2017, which studied two of the same modified viruses. In that paper, researchers used the backbone of WIV1, a bat SARS-like virus reported in 2013, and swapped in the spike proteins of two newly identified bat coronaviruses to see if they, like WIV1, could use the ACE2 receptor to enter human cells grown in a petri dish. They could.
This time, the researchers did a similar experiment, but tested the chimeric viruses in mice. Since mice have their own ACE2 receptor, the animals were engineered to express the human form, but were otherwise unchanged.
“In this limited experiment, laboratory mice infected with the SHC014 WIV1 bat coronavirus became sicker than those infected with the WIV1 bat coronavirus,” Tabak wrote. “As sometimes occurs in science, this was an unexpected result of the research, as opposed to something that the researchers set out to do.”
As is shown in section 3.1 of the grant progress report, which was provided to and released by the Republicans on the House committee, infection with the viruses killed some of the mice, with the one chimeric virus being especially lethal. That virus killed six of the eight mice, replicated better than WIV1 in various mouse tissues and caused more pathology in the lung.
Tabak said in his letter that the research plan had been reviewed by the agency before funding, and the agency determined that it did not meet the NIH’s definition of gain-of-function — or what the agency terms research involving enhanced pathogens of pandemic potential — “because these bat coronaviruses had not been shown to infect humans.” It therefore was not subject to review under the Department of Health and Human Services’ framework for enhanced pathogens.
But, he added, “out of an abundance of caution and as an additional layer of oversight,” the agency had outlined criteria in the terms and conditions of the grant award for a secondary review, “such as a requirement that the grantee report immediately a one log increase in growth,” meaning a 10-fold increase in viral growth, to “determine whether the research aims should be re-evaluated or new biosafety measures should be enacted.”
“EcoHealth failed to report this finding right away, as was required by the terms of the grant,” the letter reads. “EcoHealth is being notified that they have five days from today to submit to NIH any and all unpublished data from the experiments and work conducted under this award.”
Tabak then spent the bulk of the letter’s second page explaining that bat coronaviruses used in the experiments “could not have been the source of SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 pandemic,” as we’ve established.
For its part, EcoHealth disputes NIH’s characterization.
“EcoHealth Alliance is working with the NIH to promptly address what we believe to be a misconception about the grant’s reporting requirements and what the data from our research showed,” said Robert Kessler, the group’s spokesperson, in a statement provided to FactCheck.org. “These data were reported as soon as we were made aware, in our year 4 report in April 2018. NIH reviewed those data and did not indicate that secondary review of our research was required, in fact year 5 funding was allowed to progress without delay.”
The progress report notes that its experiments in mice were “continued” in year 5.
In his statement, Kessler confirmed that the organization’s grant was not ongoing. Collins similarly told CNN that the grant had been suspended “since last year.”
Fact Check-Anthony Fauci is not ‘part of Pfizer’ as posts claim
By Reuters Fact Check
5 MIN READ
Posts claiming Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is “part of Pfizer,” the company that has developed one of the COVID-19 vaccines, are false.
The allegation was tweeted on July 22 by Jonathan Feliciano, guard for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL) (see archived version: here ) and has since been deleted. Feliciano’s press team did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters.
The tweet reads: “It’s been proven that COVID was made in lab. Fauci also a part of Pfizer [thinking emoji] that’s why ppl don’t want to get the vaccine. Sad to come to the realization that you can not trust the government. #dontshootthemessenger”. Facebook posts with screenshots of it can be seen here , here
As explained by Reuters here , the origins of SARS-CoV-2 remain contested among experts. Further information on this can be seen here .
Reuters found no evidence to support the claim that Fauci is involved with Pfizer ( here ).
Any position held in Pfizer or financial relationship with the company would have to be disclosed publicly, as per the Ethics in Government Act ( ethics.od.nih.gov/fd , here ).
Keanna Ghazvini, Senior Associate, Global Media Relations at Pfizer, confirmed to Reuters via email that “Dr. Anthony Fauci never worked at Pfizer.”
Two years after graduating from Cornell University ( here ), Fauci started working at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1968 - as a clinical associate at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) ( www.oar.nih.gov/about/fauci ).
Fauci was appointed director of NIAID in 1984 and has advised seven administrations on health issues such as AIDS and Ebola ( here ).
He is a member of several scientific organizations in the United States such as the National Academy of Sciences ( here ) and the National Academy of Medicine. According to his biography on the NIAID website, he also “serves on the editorial board of many scientific journals” ( here ).
Reuters previously debunked other posts that falsely claimed Fauci was tied to Moderna Inc. ( here )
The NIH did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters. In May 2020, the NIH told USA Today that Fauci “does not own stock in any biomedical or pharmaceutical companies.” ( here )
VERDICT
False. There is no evidence that Anthony Fauci is part of Pfizer, as posts online claim.
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@3RU7AL
I love how the lower info bar from youtube says to make sure to get the latest information from the CDC....oh the irony!
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@RationalMadman
What exactly is it that Fauci did wrong
At the very least he knew it was most likely bullshit when he advised people in the beginning to stop wearing masks because they were ineffective.
I know why he did it. Hospitals had a mask shortage at the time, but the ethics of lying to the public is at least debatabley bad
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@RationalMadman
Fauci also lied about the vaccines he was paid to promote being able to prevent viral infection. A big lie which was the basis for unconstitutional mandates and countless people being forced into early retirement or being outright fired.
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@PREZ-HILTON
He also suggested double masking. It was the modern swastika showing obedience to the state.
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@PREZ-HILTON
At the very least he knew it was most likely bullshit when he advised people in the beginning to stop wearing masks because they were ineffective.
also, n95 masks with a valve on them, do almost nothing to filter out-bound particles (contradicting the mandate justification that "masks protect others")
also, those cloth scarves (neck gaiters / neck tubes / bandanas) can actually INCREASE the spread of disease
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@3RU7AL
It also turned swaths of the country robotic and purposeless as the ability to read facial expressions was removed.
These effects on small children who were never at risk from Covid are likely unrecoverable. A lost generation.
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@Greyparrot
Er... which vaccine
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@RationalMadman
Fauci said many statements like this suggesting vaccinated people could not spread the virus or that it was a very low possibility. The CDC knew 18 months ago that the vaccine didn't stop the transmission of the virus significantly at all, and may have accelerated breakout cases. Recorded cases and deaths kept rising even as rates of vaccinated people rose. The CDC predicted the opposite but observed the reverse.
The mandates were based on the lie that vaccines would stop the spread.
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@Greyparrot
But it did significantly reduce the degree of the transmission, since the people who had it killed it off far faster, meaning they had less inside them to transmit.
But it did significantly reduce the degree of the transmission, since the people who had it kiled it off far faster, meaning they had less inside them to transmit.
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@Greyparrot
Famed televangelist Marcus Lamb died at 64 after contracting covid-19 and after his network discouraged vaccines.
Praise the Lord! God is telling us to listen to Science instead of him.
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@RationalMadman
That didn't correlate with transmission rates. You already know there were more Covid cases and deaths in 2021 at a time when almost all Americans were vaccinated than 2020 rates when nearly nobody was vaccinated. The only thing that actually worked was natural immunity, but Fauci wasn't being paid to say that.
There's no way you can say with a straight face that vaccine mandates were necessary to slow the spread. CDC and Fauci knew all of this 18 months ago and hid it from the public for monetary profit.
God is telling us to listen to Science instead of him.
At least God doesn't take money to lie to you about big pharma.
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@Greyparrot
If you, a friend or a loved one remain unvaccinated against COVID-19 at this point – for whatever reason – you are at higher risk for dying if you do become infected.
That's the conclusion of a report The Associated Press released looking at COVID-19 deaths during May 2021.
Of more than 18,000 people who died from COVID-19, for example, only about 150 were fully vaccinated. That's less than 1%.
That's the conclusion of a report The Associated Press released looking at COVID-19 deaths during May 2021.
Of more than 18,000 people who died from COVID-19, for example, only about 150 were fully vaccinated. That's less than 1%.
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@FLRW
Ok groomer.
At least Fauci was smart enough to get money up front before trying to convince people the studies Big Pharma paid for.
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@3RU7AL
There are idiot Fauci cultists still thinking the CDC cares about 4 year olds and not lobbyists.
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@3RU7AL
"Walensky's CDC memo should have mentioned that a big CDC failure was lying, repeatedly about the evidence for masking 4 year olds, which is zero good evidence. Which inevitably leads "science zealots" to do this to a 4 year old."
-Vinay Prasad, MD MPH
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@Greyparrot
That is because lockdown was stricter for longer in 2020.
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@RationalMadman
Do you see any problem at all with big pharma providing royalties for government contracts to appointed administrators?
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@Greyparrot
Be more precise what you are asking
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@RationalMadman
This article.
While Fauci says he donated the royalties to charity (if you believe that), it's still highly unethical.
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@Greyparrot
What is it you are trying to say? I do not grasp what you are saying...
Are you saying we should fix the lack of scrutiny on cashflow from companies to political figures? Are you saying we should punish Pfizer and Moderna? Are you saying Fauci is to take full brunt on their behalf?
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@RationalMadman
All of the above