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nthony Fauci may have announced his decision to step away from public life but he will not be easily forgotten – and, for him, that is probably a concern. Documented evidence is surfacing that indicates the infectious disease expert and White House advisor tried to downplay the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic began with a leak from a Chinese lab.
Now Fauci appears to be doing one last round of damage control, knowing that Republicans in Congress are still looking for answers to a lot of questions regarding the newest coronavirus and Fauci’s part in the response to its outbreak.
Guardian reporter Jimmy Tobias tenaciously pursued a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) and finally obtained unredacted emails. They provide details of a certain Feb. 2020 conversation in which Dr. Anthony Fauci discussed COVID-19 with virologists. In short, the communications show the medical experts were aghast at the possibility that the laboratory in Wuhan, China, might have been conducting experiments with a virus that it was not equipped or certified to address. The lab in question is rated as BSL-2, a low-level biosafety laboratory.
Ignoring Potential COVID-19 Red Flags
Participants in the discussion also mulled the possibility of “accidental lab passage in animals.” The COVID-19 virus had been found to contain furin cleavage sites, which are not naturally occurring in other SARS-related coronaviruses. Furin is a protease enzyme and “cleavage site” refers to a place where furin enzymes split the spike protein in COVID-19. That all sounds fairly bewildering to us laypeople, but it essentially means the possibility that SARS-Cov-2 originated in a laboratory cannot be discounted. Fauci ignored the advice of one participant in the conversation who suggested that the FBI and Britain’s MI5 be alerted.
At the beginning of the pandemic, Fauci and other people presented as “experts” insisted the virus was first discovered in a bat.
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