Email suggests Fauci, Collins covertly contributed to COVID natural origin paper: watchdog

JTN– The federal officials most responsible for shaping COVID-19 origin narratives may have covertly contributed to a March 2020 research paper concluding that “SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct” and rejecting the plausibility of “any type of laboratory-based scenario.”

Newly disclosed emails show the corresponding author, Scripps Research Institute immunologist Kristian Andersen, thanked Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci for their “advice and leadership as we have been working through the SARS-CoV-2 origins’ paper.”

The then-directors of the National Institutes of Health and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases went on to cite the Nature Medicine paper in their public comments rejecting the possibility of a viral leak from the U.S. taxpayer-funded Wuhan Institute of Virology.

At a White House press conference in April 2020, Fauci told a reporter to review the paper by “a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists” who concluded the viral sequence mutations were “totally consistent” with an animal-to-human “jump.” MORE HERE