FDA Chief Says Fauci Engineered a Sweeping COVID-Origins Cover-Up
Dr. Anthony Fauci spent the pandemic years burying critical information about where COVID-19 came from, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary alleged in a fiery appearance on “Pod Force One,” accusing the longtime federal health official of directing an intentional and far-reaching concealment.
Makary, who previously taught at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, told host Miranda Devine that while leading the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Fauci aggressively shut down discussion of a possible lab leak in China — a suppression effort that, he argued, went largely unnoticed inside the medical world. “One thing that’s extremely obvious that very few people realize, and certainly hardly anyone in the medical establishment where I come from realized, is that [Fauci] was involved in a massive cover-up of the origins of COVID, a massive cover-up,” the FDA commissioner said.
He emphasized that the concealment was indisputable, regardless of whether Fauci had any personal involvement in the underlying experiments. “Whether or not he was involved in the experiments or funding the experiments that led to the origins of COVID, he was clearly 100% involved in the cover-up,” he added.
Fauci — who also held the role of chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden — received a sweeping presidential pardon last December, insulating him from prosecution for any potential offenses dating back to 2014. Makary suggested that this blanket pardon was not coincidental, arguing that Fauci’s alleged actions in hiding the virus’s origins overshadow even the “massive disagreements” he has with Fauci’s public health guidance during the crisis.
According to Makary, Fauci took the manipulation of scientific discourse to a new level. “[O]nly recently did Anthony Fauci take it to the next level of using science as political propaganda,” he told Devine. “He commissioned the pieces that lied about the COVID origins. The author who submitted the article said this was commissioned by Dr. Fauci and [Dr. Francis Collins, the former director of the National Institutes of Health] in that cover letter.”
Evidence released in 2023 by the House Oversight Committee showed that Fauci requested, reviewed, and approved a scientific paper — “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” — written early in 2020 to push back against the notion that the virus originated from a Wuhan research facility.
Two months later, Fauci appeared at a White House briefing beside President Trump and cited that paper while arguing that a lab leak was unlikely.
The paper’s timing raised further questions: it was drafted just four days after Fauci and Collins held a call with its authors to address growing reports that COVID-19 could have escaped from the Wuhan lab.
Makary described the internal scramble during that period. “If you think back to the end of January, just before COVID became a thing in the news in the United States, January, February, what was Dr. Fauci doing? He was frantically engaging in a massive cover-up with 3 a.m. emails and phone calls,” he said. He added that the scientists involved originally told Fauci, “‘We think it came from the Wuhan lab,’” only to publish a letter days later asserting the opposite — after some reportedly received “millions of dollars in funding from Fauci’s agency.”
“This is not rocket science. It’s a no-brainer where it came from,” Makary fumed.
Beyond the origins debate, Makary accused Fauci and Collins of systematically weakening Obama-era restrictions on gain-of-function work and approving grants for risky viral manipulation projects. He argued that “They did everything you could do bureaucratically,” and said Fauci subsequently “parsed his words to basically lie to Congress” about the research.
He called the alleged deception “an American tragedy,” expressing disbelief that leading academics missed what he views as obvious. “What I’m shocked by coming from the faculty at Johns Hopkins is none of my colleagues knew any of this,” Makary said. “I could not believe that my colleagues had no idea of the origins and the facts surrounding the origins and the massive cover-up that Fauci and Collins led.”
Makary contended that Fauci and Collins managed to shape the narrative because of the immense influence they wield — influence tied deeply to federal research dollars. He said the Wuhan lab maintained “the safety standards of a poorly managed dental office,” yet the medical establishment still rallied behind Fauci and Collins.
“They have achieved sainthood, and they have tremendous power.”
{Matzav.com}
