RE: For you Fauci bootlickers. You know who you are…

Posted on: March 2, 2023 at 07:56:42 CT

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Andersen and other scientists were consulted by the NIH and NIAID about the possibility of a lab leak.[2][3][4] Andersen, in an email to Anthony Fauci in January 2020, told Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, that some features of the virus made him wonder whether it had been engineered, and noted that he and his colleagues were planning to investigate further by analyzing the virus’s genome.[5] However, less than two months later, Andersen was the lead author of the scientific paper The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2,[6] published in Nature Medicine in March 2020, which concluded that "SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus". Later that year, Andersen’s lab was awarded an $8.9 million grant by NIAID.[7] In a 2022 paper, Andersen concluded that animals sold in a market in Wuhan, China, were most likely to be the source of the virus