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Fauci Has to 'Cover Tracks' of NIH Involvement in Gain-of-Function Research, Says Doctor

17:50 GMT, 28 February 2023
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The fact that various US agencies are yet to decide on how the coronavirus pandemic emerged underscores their unwillingness to bear responsibility and face implications, Dr. John Dombrowski, CEO of Washington Pain Center and practicing physician, told Jamarl Thomas, Manila Chan and Melik Abdul on Radio Sputnik’s Fault Lines program.
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US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has made it clear that there is still no definitive answer about the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. His comments come after the US Energy Department reportedly claimed that the virus came from a laboratory leak in Wuhan in a classified report.
According to a US newspaper, the secret document was provided to the White House and select Congress members as an update to a 2021 intelligence report, which said the Energy Department was undecided about the virus' origin.
While the powers that be in Washington ponder on this issue, Dombrowski pointed towards previous activity by former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director and chief presidential medical advisor Anthony Fauci with regards to the origins of COVID-19.
The Washington Pain Center chief executive apparently referred to documents and email correspondence obtained by a US magazine last year that revealed that Fauci, who also worked at the Maryland­-based National Institutes of Health (NIH), purportedly was at the forefront of a quiet push to silence scientific research asking uncomfortable questions about the virus’ origin.

“Anthony Fauci has to cover his tracks very quickly, because it cannot be discovered that the NIH, through a kind of cut-out of Peter Daszak with the EcoHealth Alliance, were sending millions of dollars from the US government that were told not to be sent for gain-of-function research,” Dombrowski noted.

He was referring to a British zoologist and head of EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit non-governmental organization that supports various programs on global health and pandemic prevention. Daszak was involved in the COVID-19-related investigations and became a member of the World Health Organization team sent to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic in China.
While the US pulled the plug on federal funding of the gain-of-function research during the Obama administration, Dombrowski suggested that "it got restarted unbeknowingly, probably, by the Trump administration and all this money," and that Fauci simply "could not have his fingerprints on any of this."

"Hence, he said, well, it has to be this natural product versus 'we could have come up very straight - You know, I want to tell you, Mr. President, this is what we've been doing, this is what we can do'," Dombrowski mused. "Because of what we could have done differently if we knew that this was man-made versus just something naturally occurring, perhaps the outcomes might have been different."

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Dombrowski also said he found it interesting that Fauci was "always against" medication that could have been used for early treatment or even the prophylactic of the virus, such as hydroxychloroquine or remdesivir.

"Now it's proven in science, in the scientific peer-reviewed literature that early treatment of this makes a big difference. However, he was pushing remdesivir, which he has a patent on," he said, noting that remdesivir was developed through NIH. "So, again, why are you squashing the potential for treatment where that's pennies on the dollar?"

Listen to more of Dr. John Dombrowski's conversation with Jamarl Thomas, Manila Chan and Melik Abdul here.
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