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Published Jan. 14, 2024, 12:29 p.m. ET

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COVID ‘6-feet’ social distancing one of the worst decisions in public health history — in the
‘sort of just appeared,’ likely entire history of the world,” Paul said of the former chief
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“For his dishonesty, frankly, he should go to prison,” Paul told WABC host John Catsimatidis. “Do you
think the scientific knowledge that was gained from this research was worth the deaths of 20 million Now on
people?”

The Government Accountability Office issued a report in June 2023 that found the National Institutes of
Health (NIH) had contributed more than $1.4 million to Chinese research institutions between 2014 and
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Dr. Anthony Fauci arriving for an interview with the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic at the
Capitol on Jan. 8, 2024.
Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Sen. Rand Paul said Fauci “should go to prison” for his mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Fauci previously denied in testimony to Congress that the NIH had funded risky gain-of-function research
at the lab in Wuhan, the area where the pandemic began in late 2019.

Paul said he was startled that Democrats still treat the nation’s former infectious disease chief as a
medical messiah and protect him as a “symbol of big government.”

“He’s never been held responsible,” the senator said.

Fauci, the top pandemic medical adviser to two presidents, testified privately last week before the House
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

Paul blamed Fauci for funding the research done at the Wuhan Institute of Virology that some believe triggered the
outbreak.
Chinatopix via AP

The chairman of the committee, Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), has said he was surprised how frequently
Fauci said he didn’t recall decisions or circumstances during the early days of the outbreak that killed 1.1
million Americans.

Paul pounced on the 83-year-old Fauci’s of not being able to respond to questions over 100 times.

“A guy that’s smart enough to think that he can shut down the schools,
shut down the economy, force everybody to get vaccinated, including see also
children, including people who have already had COVID, including the
military – we had mandates everywhere, and he was all for them – yet
he can’t recall how the decision-making went or what the science is to
support this,” Paul said Sunday.

He poked Fauci for saying he approved all the research at the Wuhan
lab but didn’t read it. COVID ‘6-feet’ social
distancing ‘sort of just
“Itlooked like the virus came from the lab. But the lab only was able to appeared,’ likely lacked
scientific basis, Fauci
function because the US funded it and Anthony Fauci approved of it,” admits
Paul said.

“This is probably the worst decision ever made by a public health

official in the history of time.”

Fauci could not be reached for comment.

During last week’s House testimony, Fauci spoke of a “new definition” of “operational” gain-of-function
research, a phrase that often describes experiments that make viruses more contagious and virulent.

Paul said Fauci was responsible for the “worst decision ever made by a public health official in the history of time.”
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) told reporters afterwards that Fauci had referred to his “operational”
definition when discussing his prior high-profile clashes with Paul over the topic in 2021 hearings.

The House subcommittee is also probing influence Fauci may have had over the US intelligence
community about the origin of the pandemic after a whistleblower alleged that the NIAID director secretly
visited CIA headquarters in an attempt to “influence” analysts who later were unable to determine whether
SARS-CoV-2 leaked from a lab or was transmitted from animals to humans.

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Fauci declined to respond to The Post’s questions last week about the whistleblower’s claim as he arrived
for his interview. He also did not stop to talk as he left the interview room last Monday evening.

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Nelson
50 minutes ago
Ron Paul is 100% correct that Fauci should go to jail but he will not, bureaucrats are a
rotected species in the swamp of swamps. Jail today those who commit malfeasance in office,
would be empty. Yet no change, no corrections, no new laws that strengthen enforcement
longer prison sen...
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Mike Stone
15 minutes ago
The guy who was president and had the power to make decisions was Trump. And he let
auci shut down the country and pushed his own clot shot that killed or disabled millions.
is the villain here

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Who Cares
1 minute ago
Liberals didn’t want to take “Trump’s vaccine” until the Democrats seized power,
hen it miraculously changed.

Monday morning quarterback; Hindsight is 20/20.

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Mayhem
1 hour ago
And he should forfeit his government pension too.
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RealityMan
57 minutes ago
Skip prison. Put him on a ventilator and suffocate him...like he did to untold numbers of
Invite any relatives of his victims to watch him die.

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Nelson
48 minutes ago
Would not hurt him after making millions from the pharmaceutical companies along with
is underlings. Not against the senile laws on the books that benefit bureaucrats over
above what an average citizens obtains.
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Bruce Gold
1 hour ago
Hey Rand----you've been saying the Exact same thing about Fauci for 3 Years already----and
Never Going to Happen---bottom line.

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Randy McDonald
1 hour ago
it wont happen under this administration ...............but this administration is out the door
less than a year .
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Andy Rice
1 hour ago
Itwould have never happened if Trump would have fired him....instead Trump gave him a
edal and still brags about his Operation Warp Speed jab.....Republicans, and some
are screaming for General Austin to resign over 4 days in the hospital......not a
about Fauci and holding him acco...
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