Dr. Anthony Fauci collaborated with a team of scientists at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to disprove any links between the outbreak and an unintentional lab leak. Despite this effort to refute popular rumor, emails recently discovered indicate that their original objective was to completely refute that hypothesis.
Francis Collins, Jeremy Farrar, Kristian Andersen, Ron Fouchier, and other medical greats joined Dr. Anthony Fauci in a crucial joint effort to identify the origins of COVID-19. They made incredible progress toward finding an answer in less than ideal circumstances through their tireless investigation into the early evidence surrounding the pandemic’s origins, emails revealed by journalist Jimmy Tobias. Their main objective was to disprove the idea that the virus originated in a lab.
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Kristian Andersen, a professor at Scripps Research and a pioneer in the study of COVID-19, made history as the first author of “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2.” The article gained worldwide attention after being cited by more than 2,000 media sites and being watched millions of times online. It quickly gained a reputation as one of the most influential scholarly works on figuring out how this epidemic got started.
A article titled “Proximal Origin” was written by a group of scientists who had spoken with Anthony Fauci previous to its publication. The COVID-19 origin idea was put forth in this document, which initially agreed with the lab-leak scenario until changing its mind. But at the end of their research, lead author Andersen revealed that they had been been trying to refute it all along.
“Our main work over the last couple of weeks has been focused on trying to disprove any type of lab theory, but we are at a crossroad where the scientific evidence isn’t conclusive enough to say that we have high confidence in any of the three main theories considered,” he wrote in that Feb. 8 email to the other scientists.
At first, Andersen was hesitant to share their discovery on the virus’ origin. Fauci, however, sent a letter of congratulations after discovering that “Proximal Origin” was ready for publication in Nature Medicine: “Nice job on the paper!”
While some experts now support the COVID-19 origin ideas, others are still adamantly opposed, which begs the issue of who changed their minds and whether research money played a role. Ron Fouchier, a renowned virologist, has long criticized the lab-leak argument; nevertheless, his notoriety stems from his work modifying H5N1 for higher pathogenicity, which further fuels discussion about possible motives.
Tobias triumphantly discovered communications from the NIH that had been kept secret for over a year after a protracted legal struggle. He finally found this important knowledge after his persistence paid off!
