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Dr. Fauci DEFENDS giving $600,000 in NIH funding to Wuhan lab for COVID research and insists it would have been 'negligent' not to do so
Dr. Anthony Fauci defended the NIH giving $600,000 to a Wuhan lab in 2014 for research into whether bat coronaviruses could be transmitted to humans
In Sunday's episode of CNN's 'State of the Union,' Fauci told host Jake Tapper that it would be 'negligent' not to fund the research
Fauci and Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul feuded over the subject last week, when Paul accused Fauci of being liable for the origin of the coronavirus
Fauci accused Paul of being a 'liar' who 'doesn't know what you're talking about'
Speaking with Fauci Sunday, Tapper brought up the feud with Paul and said that even if the NIH didn't specifically fund gain of function research, 'critics say the Wuhan lab experiments were nonetheless risky, whether or not they fit that category.'
He added, 'And, obviously, the Chinese government is not a good-faith partner. They're not allowing transparency. They're not allowing a real investigation. So, as a matter of policy going forward, given that the Chinese government won't allow any real investigation, do you still think the U.S. government should collaborate with labs like Wuhan, especially on research that experts consider risky?'