Sen. Rand Paul Says COVID Lab Leak-Denying Doctor Should NOT Be WHO’s Top Scientist | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Joseph Curl.

    Everything is in flux following a report that the U.S. Department of Energy has concluded that the virus that causes COVID likely leaked from a coronavirus lab in Wuhan, China.

    Since then, there have been other unsettling reports that shine a spotlight on just who said what and when.

    For instance, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's recently retired leading infectious disease expert, had long sought to sell the idea that the virus emerged naturally. Nearly three years ago, Fauci cited a study that found the virus's mutations "consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human."

    "There was a study recently," Fauci told reporters on April 17, 2020, when asked if it was possible that virus came from a Chinese lab, "where a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences ... in bats as they evolve and the mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now is totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human."

    "So, the paper will be available. I don't have the authors right now, but we can make it available to you," Fauci said.

    But new emails revealed by House Republicans show a completely different story. The emails indicate Fauci "prompted" that very study to disprove the theory that the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan. In fact, he had final approval of the scientific paper he had commissioned, The New York Post reported.

    Enter Dr. Jeremy Farrer. Like Fauci, he "prompted" the scientific paper. Farrar was then the head of the British nonprofit, the Wellcome Trust, which has long ties to the pharmaceutical industry. On the day the paper was published, emails show Farrar pushed for an edit to the piece. "Sorry to micromanage/micro edit! But would you be willing to change one sentence?"

    He wanted to change the word "unlikely" to "improbable" so a sentence would read: "It is improbable that SARS-CoV-2 emerged through laboratory manipulation of an existing SARS-related coronavirus."

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    Now, Farrar is about to become chief scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO). He is set to take the six-figure role in the second quarter of this year after stepping down as director of Wellcome.

    Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a doctor, told DailyMail.com that he opposes Farrar's appointment.

    "Jeremy Farrar, the guy who then publicly disdained the lab leak theory despite privately admitting he was still 50:50 on the lab leak should not be in charge of the WHO or any investigations into the origins of Covid," Paul told the U.K. paper.

    The Mail reported that emails leaked last year show Farrar privately expressed concern that COVID could have leaked from a lab in February 2020. "He famously told Dr. Anthony Fauci and colleagues that he was 50:50 between a lab leak and natural origin," the paper said.

    But just weeks later, Farrar signed his name to a letter in the Lancet medical publication denouncing the lab leak hypothesis as nothing more than a "conspiracy theory."

    Dr. David Livermore, a microbiologist at the University of East Anglia in the U.K., also told the Mail WHO should reconsider Farrar's appointment.

    "He first privately speculated on a lab leak origin for Covid. Yet, he then added his signature to a notorious Lancet letter seeking to debunk the lab leak theory. If he is to lead the WHO, it would be wise for Dr. Farrar to commission investigations of Covid's origins entirely independent of the Organization's hierarchy, himself included," Livermore said.

    The views expressed in this piece are the author's own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Considering the irrefutable fact that the Left /the Democratic Socialists, beginning in March of 2020, employed the repetitive use of the Covid Pandemic as a political cudgel to wrest a presidential election, where their candidate rarely left his basement, from a frightened and beaten down citizenry of this Representative Republic: What does your knowledge NOW, in hindsight, aid in your understanding of the motives of the Authoritarian Left?

  The "Left" cares about all Democratics, so it was imperative that we do whatever it took to elect a lifelong politician to become that Democratic Socialist to forever change US.

  Pandemics are serious business, where our leaders must use wisdom and practicable efforts of all that serve to protect the public from not only the pandemic, but these ignoble usurpers of the Left.

  I lost almost everything in the Covid Pandemic, and I want justice; a justice where only the truth prevails, and the rampant fraud that is now legend is remedied.

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