On Twitter on Sunday, Musk claimed that Fauci had sponsored gain-of-function research “through a pass-through organization (EcoHealth)”.
Musk’s vehement criticism was in response to a tweet that compiled all of the times Fauci had refuted gain-of-function research and signaled his opposition to the theory that COVID-19 was the result of a 2019 Wuhan lab breach.
“The FBI and the Department of Energy have both come to the conclusion that the coronavirus originated at the Wuhan lab because Dr. Anthony Fauci supported gain-of-function research there and lied to Congress about it. Does that imply that COVID-19’s development was supported by Dr. Anthony Fauci?”
The U.S. Energy Department now believes it is likely that COVID came from a lab leak in the city of Wuhan, China, according to a shocking story published hours earlier by the Wall Street Journal. In a confidential intelligence assessment shared with the WSJ, the Energy Department provided an update. A lab leak idea was previously dismissed by many public health professionals, including Fauci, and the Energy Department was unsure of COVID’s origin.
The president of EcoHealth Alliance, Dr. Peter Daszak, and former chief medical advisor to President Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci, were officially invited to testify before Congress on February 13 by House Republicans.
When Fauci and Daszak asserted that “the data demonstrates that SARS-CoV-2 is not a purposely modified virus” and “we do not feel that any form of laboratory-based scenario is possible,” they were quoted as experts by countless media sites.
In his tweet, Musk mentioned Daszak’s business. A grantee of the NIH, Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance “sent taxpayer funding to the Wuhan lab to undertake gain of function studies on bat coronaviruses – research that may have launched the epidemic,” the House Republicans’ request noted.
Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and James Comer (R-KY) have “sent multiple letters to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases” throughout the 117th Congress.
The letter states that “they have also demanded information from many virologists who conspired with Dr. Fauci during the early stages of the pandemic to undermine the lab leak theory and published a study concluding without any proof that COVID-19 is not the consequence of a lab breach or gain-of-function research.”
