There is a major fireworks, major fireworks happening recently in the form of

Rand Paul versus Dr. Fauci round four. This is what it looked like.

Ding ding. Dr. Fauci, as you are aware, it is a crime to lie to Congress.

Section 1-001 of the U.S. Criminal Code creates a felony and a five-year penalty

for lying to Congress. On your last trip to our committee on May 11th,

you stated that the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research

in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. And yet, gain-of-function research was

done entirely in the Wuhan Institute by Dr. Schee and was funded by the NIH.

I'd like to ask unanimous consent, insert into the record the Wuhan Virology paper

entitled Discovery of a Rich Jean-Poul of Bat Tsar's related coronaviruses.

Please deliver a copy of the journal article to Dr. Fauci.

In this paper, Dr. Schee credits the NIH and lists the actual number of the grant

that she was given by the NIH. In this paper, she took two bat coronavirus

genes, spike genes, and combined them with a SARS-related backbone to create

new viruses that are not found in nature. These lab-created viruses were then

to shown to replicate in humans. These experiments combine genetic information

from different coronaviruses that infect animals, but not humans, to create

novel, artificial viruses able to infect human cells.

Viruses that in nature only infect animals were manipulated in the Wuhan lab

to gain the function of infecting humans. This research fits the definition

of the research that the NIH said was subject to the pause.

In 2014 to 2017, a pause in funding on gain of function.

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