Dr. Wenstrup [Chairman]: Has Gain of Function [research] created any life-saving vaccines or therapeutics to your knowledge?

Dr. Redfield: Not to my knowledge.

Wenstrup: Has Gain of Function [research] stopped a pandemic in your opinion?

Redfield: No. On the contrary, I think it probably caused the greatest pandemic our world has seen.

Ranking member Ruiz is more concerned with accusing Dr. Wade of being some kind of racist than seriously investigating the origin of COVID-19.

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Raskin: The COVID-19 pandemic came to America in 2020 of course, when Donald Trump was president. And the president's policy failures, magical thinking, and total recklessness caused, according to his own special advisor on COVID, Deborah Birx, the unnecessary death of hundreds of thousands of Americans.

Raskin: Whatever the origins of COVID-19, whether it's bats or bureaucrats, no finding will ever exonerate or rehabilitate Donald Trump for his lethal recklessness in mismanaging the crisis of America which cost us more than a million lives.

Dr. Redfield: Remember, this pandemic did not start in January at the seafood market. We now know there was infections all the way back into September. This was a narrative that was decided, that they were going to say this came from a wet market, and they were going to do everything they could to support it, to negate any discussion about the possibility that this came from a laboratory.

Malliotakis: Is it likely that American tax dollars funded the gain of function research that created this virus?

Dr. Redfield: I think it did, not only from NIH, but from the State Department, USAID, and from DOD.

Dingell: We cannot go down a dangerous path of pushing unfounded conspiracies about Dr. Fauci and other long-serving career public health officials.

Comer: I think Dr. Fauci and Dr. Collins got caught with their hands in the cookie jar. They got caught supercharging viruses in an unsecure Chinese lab….they got together to cover themselves. Coverup their story, and wipe their fingerprints of the virus that has killed more than one million Americans.

Mfume attacking Dr. Wade over 'racism', rather than confronting Wade's theories directly.

Lesko: Some of my democrat colleagues [Mfume, Raskin], are the one making the COVID investigation political. Why they don't want to investigate the origins of COVID-19 that killed millions of people, I will never understand.

Garcia, like Raskin, is more interested in attacking President Trump than actually investigating the origin of COVID.

Jackson: I'm disturbed that people of the left in this committee can't talk about this at all without bringing up Trump, racism, or conspiracy theorists.