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At a contentious hearing this summer over the COVID-19 response, Republicans accused him of helping fund Chinese government efforts to create the virus, hiding medical data about the pandemic and making up U.S. guidelines, all of which Fauci said was not true.
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Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025
Cows with bird flu shed large amounts of the H5N1 virus in their milk, although pasteurization has been confirmed to kill the virus, leaving the commercial milk supply safe to drink.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2025
But, what the government didn’t reveal is that the virus had already been sequenced in Chinese laboratories, and found to be very similar to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
—Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Fauci, the face of the nation’s pandemic response, was criticized by Trump and his allies for efforts to refute Trump’s unsubstantiated claims about the virus and urging Americans to be vaccinated.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 20 Jan. 2025
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Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025
Cows with bird flu shed large amounts of the H5N1 virus in their milk, although pasteurization has been confirmed to kill the virus, leaving the commercial milk supply safe to drink.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2025
But, what the government didn’t reveal is that the virus had already been sequenced in Chinese laboratories, and found to be very similar to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
—Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Fauci, the face of the nation’s pandemic response, was criticized by Trump and his allies for efforts to refute Trump’s unsubstantiated claims about the virus and urging Americans to be vaccinated.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 20 Jan. 2025
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