US House report on COVID-19 alleges high-level corruption, Fauci deception

After a two-year investigation, a U.S. House of Representatives select subcommittee issued a 500-page report exposing high-level corruption in the public health system during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The report takes direct aim at Dr. Anthony Fauci, who as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was at the center of COVID-19 health measures in the U.S.

The report identifies the most likely origin of COVID-19 as a laboratory in Wuhan, China, citing five key arguments supporting the lab leak theory, a theory Fauci actively worked to dispel because he may have had a conflict of interest.  

The arguments in favor of the lab leak, according to the report, include:  

• the virus’s unique biological characteristics; 

• data showing a single introduction into humans; 

• Wuhan’s history in viral engineering; 

• early COVID-like illnesses among Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers; and  

• the lack of evidence for a natural origin. 

The report raises questions about Fauci’s role in promoting the view that the virus was naturally occurring, including the fact he prompted a paper to be written and published in a prestigious medical journal advancing the theory of natural origin. 

Fauci’s motive, the report says, was to discredit those who said the virus had escaped from the Wuhan lab and that it was possibly manmade. 

Two months after Fauci’s report was published in Nature, he expressed disappointment that people were still questioning the origins of the virus. 

“I hoped the Nature Medicine article on the genomic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 would settle this…,” Fauci told his boss in an email, according to the report.  

His frustration could have stemmed from the fact that despite his denials, it has long been suspected that the NIH, with Fauci’s approval, funded risky gain-of-function research that may have allowed the virus to escape from the bio-lab and spread to human hosts.  

When confronted by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, in a hearing about the possible NIH funding, Fauci repeatedly denied that the U.S. government under his watch funded the risky research. 

However, the House subcommittee concluded Fauci’s denials were a simple sleight-of-hand rhetorical trick. 

“Dr. Fauci testified that when he testified before the Senate, he was using the ‘operative’ 

definition of gain of function. However, that was not the definition of that term used by the NIH at that time,” says the report  

The NIH at the time of Fauci’s testimony had a very different, broader definition that was later scrubbed from its website on the same day a whistleblower reported the research to Congress.  

“Dr. Fauci’s testimony to Senator Paul misled the public regarding NIH funding of gain-of-function research at the [Wuhan lab],” the report concluded.    

It wasn’t the only time the report cited Fauci for misleading the country about the pandemic. 

During closed-door testimony, the doctor admitted that the six-foot social distancing recommendation was arbitrary and not based on science, despite it being a significant factor in recommending a nationwide lockdown.  

“It sort of just appeared,” he testified, saying he didn’t recall when the topic was first bridged.  

Fauci also admitted there were no scientific studies that supported social distancing as effective. 

The same was true of masking, which Fauci took every opportunity to preach about, so much so that universal masking became required under the law in many states even as the pandemic receded. 

“There was no conclusive evidence that masks effectively protected Americans from COVID-19,” the report noted. “Public health officials flipped-flopped on the efficacy of masks without providing Americans scientific data – causing a massive uptick in public distrust.” 

The report also states that Fauci’s public comments contradicted his private testimony on travel bans where he unequivocally agreed with every travel restriction issued by the Trump administration, some of which were publicly criticized as xenophobic and ineffectively targeting China as a part of “Asian hate.”   

The report reveals the existence of a federal grand jury investigating the origins of the COVID-19 virus to see if any federal laws were violated in the research protocols funding the Wuhan lab, but it’s unclear what the status of that investigation is currently.  

But if Sen. Paul has his way, Fauci will be looking at a criminal indictment. 

“And do you believe that Anthony Fauci belongs in jail?” Fox News host Sean Hannity asked the senator earlier this year.  

“Without question,” Paul responded. 

In January 2025, Paul will become chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, where he plans to fully investigate the origins of COVID-19. 

“The biggest item of the COVID coverup is that for years we’ve known there is this dangerous research,” he told the New York Post.  

It’s research that Paul’s House colleagues now say Fauci lied about.