Tucker Makes Scorching Case That Fauci Helped Chinese Lab Create COVID

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson on-air Monday laid out the growing evidence that the novel coronavirus was developed in a Chinese lab with funding from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s agency.

The evidence: Carlson devoted fully nine minutes of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” to a recent Medium post in which Nicholas Wade, a respected former New York Times science journalist, makes the case that the virus escaped from Wuhan Institute of Virology and caused the global COVID-19 pandemic.

  • “And the piece explains where this virus almost certainly came from,” Carlson said. “In it, Nicholas Wade makes it clear that more than any other living American, Tony Fauci is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic.”
  • Carlson noted that, according to Wade, the lab was “doing gain-of-function experiments designed to make coronaviruses infect human cells” under safety standards comparable to those of a dentist’s office.

In the absence of proof, Wade concludes that the structure and spread of the coronavirus are better explained by a lab accident than by the prevailing theory that SARS2 is a natural virus that jumped from bats, via another animal host, to people.

The culprits: As recounted by Carlson, Wade accuses virologists and the media of helping China to conceal and discredit evidence that the pandemic may have been manmade.

  • Wade also faults the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases particularly Fauci, its longtime director, for circumventing federal restrictions to fund gain-of-function research with coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology from 2014 and 2019.

“In a functional country, there would be a criminal investigation currently underway into Tony Fauci’s role in the COVID pandemic that has killed millions and halted our country and changed it forever,” Carlson said.

  • “So why isn’t there a criminal investigation into Tony Fauci’s role in this pandemic?”

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