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Dr. Anthony Fauci orchestrated a \u201cmassive cover-up\u201d about the origins of COVID-19 while serving as a top public health official during the coronavirus pandemic, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary<\/a> argued on the latest episode of \u201cPod Force One.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Makary, a former professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, explained to \u201cPod Force One\u201d host Miranda Devine that as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), Fauci went to great lengths to suppress the theory that COVID-19 leaked out of a research lab in China<\/a> \u2014 something few in the medical community picked up on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOne thing that\u2019s extremely obvious that very few people realize, and certainly hardly anyone in the medical establishment where I come from realized, is that [Fauci] was involved in a massive cover-up of the origins of COVID, a massive cover-up,\u201d the FDA commissioner said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhether or not he was involved in the experiments or funding the experiments that led to the origins of COVID, he was clearly 100% involved in the cover-up,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Fauci, who also served as President Joe Biden\u2019s chief medical adviser, received\u00a0a sweeping pardon<\/a>\u00a0from the then-president last December, for any offenses committed between Jan. 1, 2014, up to the date the pardon was signed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Makary suggested the pardon was related to Fauci\u2019s alleged role in the COVID cover-up, which he argued supersedes any of the \u201cmassive disagreements\u201d he has with the way he advised the public and government leaders during the pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c[O]nly recently did Anthony Fauci take it to the next level of using science as political propaganda,\u201d Makary told Devine. \u201cHe commissioned the pieces that lied about the COVID origins. The author who submitted the article said this was commissioned by Dr. Fauci and [Dr. Francis Collins, the former director of the National Institutes of Health] in that cover letter.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2023, the House Oversight Committee released evidence showing Fauci commissioned and gave final approval for a scientific paper \u2014 \u201cThe Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2\u201d \u2014 written in February 2020 to disprove the theory that the virus leaked from a lab<\/a> in Wuhan, China. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Eight weeks later, Fauci stood at a White House press conference<\/a> alongside President Trump and cited that paper as evidence that the lab leak theory<\/a> was implausible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The paper was written four days after Fauci, and his old boss Collins, held a call with the four authors to discuss reports that COVID-19 may have leaked from the Wuhan lab. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf you think back to the end of January, just before COVID became a thing in the news in the United States, January, February, what was Dr. Fauci doing? He was frantically engaging in a massive cover-up with 3 a.m. emails and phone calls,\u201d Makary said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHe was convening people. And the notes from those meetings reveal that all these virologists he convened had told him, \u2018We think it came from the Wuhan lab,\u2019 and the output was days later, those same scientists wrote a letter in the medical journal saying it definitely did not come from the lab,\u201d he continued, claiming that some of the authors went on to receive \u201cmillions of dollars in funding from Fauci\u2019s agency.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is not rocket science. It\u2019s a no-brainer where it came from,\u201d Makary fumed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Morning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.Enter your email address<\/p>\n\n\n\n By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The FDA commissioner charged that Fauci and Collins \u201cmeticulously worked in their bureaucratic ways to water down\u201d Obama-era rules against gain-of-function research and approve federal grants for the controversial practice of genetically altering viruses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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