Everything You Need to Know About the Lab Leak

Everything You Need to Know About the Lab Leak
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Pat Fidopiastis
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Between 2014 and 2019, U.S. tax dollars were funneled to the Wuhan Institute of Virology via EcoHealth Alliance. Given that U.S. scientists have far more virology expertise than the Chinese, this begs an obvious question: what type of research were U.S. tax dollars paying for in Wuhan, China? Dr. Fauci’s surprising statement in an interview might provide the short answer to this question: “You don’t want to go to Hoboken, NJ or Fairfax, VA to be studying the bat-human interface that might lead to an outbreak, so you go to China.”
Pat Fidopiastis
Pat Fidopiastis
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Pat Fidopiastis, Ph.D., is a professor of microbiology at California Polytechnic State University.
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