{"id":1755459,"date":"2022-11-29T12:37:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T17:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1755459"},"modified":"2022-11-29T14:18:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T19:18:30","slug":"fauci-adament-its-almost-certain-federal-government-didnt-fund-experiments-that-created-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fauci-adament-its-almost-certain-federal-government-didnt-fund-experiments-that-created-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauci Adament It&#8217;s &#8220;Almost Certain&#8221; Federal Government Didn\u2019t Fund Experiments That Created COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffauci-adament-its-almost-certain-federal-government-didnt-fund-experiments-that-created-covid-19%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1755459&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2022-11\/GettyImages-1245011071.jpg?h=199d8c1f&#038;itok=J7PaaCeG\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Longtime federal infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci this week said it was an &#8220;almost certain&#8221; assurance that the federal government did not fund experiments that generated the virus that causes COVID-19.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speculation has swirled for nearly three years that experiments in China bankrolled by the National Institutes of Health may have led to the inadvertent creation\u2014and release from a lab\u2014of SARS-CoV-2. The NIH, particularly through the\u00a0National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases headed by Fauci himself, for years awarded several grants to organizations performing pathogenic enhancement experiments on coronaviruses in China.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper this week, Fauci\u2014who is this year leaving his post as the head of the NIAID\u2014suggested there was a slight but remote possibility that those experiments may have beget the virus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s possible that there&#8217;s a lab leak, but if you look at the viruses that the NIH funded &#8230; and what was done with the viruses, it would be essentially molecularly impossible for those viruses to turn into SARS-CoV-2,&#8221; Fauci told Tapper.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can\u2019t tell you what\u2019s going on in all of China or in other things,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But I can tell you for sure that if you look at the viruses that the NIH grant funded to study in a surveillance way, anybody who even has a peripheral understanding of evolutionary virology could tell you these viruses could not possibly turn into SARS-CoV-2.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So when you talk about a leak, maybe there\u2019s a lab leak,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But it\u2019s not with the viruses that the NIH was funding. That\u2019s almost certain that that\u2019s the case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fauci will be leaving the NIAID next month after just under 40 years leading it.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime federal infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci this week said it was an &#8220;almost certain&#8221; assurance that the federal government did not fund experiments that generated the virus that causes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1755462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1755462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}