Fauci: What's Incorrect From Accusers Is NIH Indirect Grant Funding To Chinese Labs Working On Covid

Fauci: What's Incorrect From Accusers Is NIH Indirect Grant Funding To Chinese Labs Working On Covid

Posted • June 19, 2024: Fauci: “Yeah, well, they’re — they’re preposterous.

Because if — we don’t know what the origin of this virus is.

It either somehow came out of a lab where Chinese scientists went into the environment and got infected and played with it and it came out, or it was a natural spillover from an animal to a human in the Wuhan market.

I keep a completely open mind.

The virological evidence, the epidemiological evidence by most qualified virologists strongly favor, though not definitively, strongly favor that it’s a natural occurrence.

But since it isn’t definitive, I keep an open mind.

What they say that’s incorrect is that the NIH funded a grant in China, an indirect grant, funded a firm in New York that did a subaward to do some surveillance studies on what is out there, which is a perfectly appropriate thing to do.

In fact, I would probably be held as being incompetent if I didn’t, if we didn’t do that.”