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Allegations that Dr. Anthony Fauci “lied” about COVID‑19 cluster around three themes: statements on masks and herd immunity, funding/oversight of Wuhan research and “gain‑of‑function,” and claims abou...
Anthony Fauci was actively involved in HIV/AIDS research from the epidemic’s earliest days: he refocused his lab to study the new syndrome in 1981, produced influential work on how the virus damages t...
Key public records and reporting show the U.S. government — through grants to EcoHealth Alliance and collaborations involving U.S. scientists — funded coronavirus research that included bat-to-human r...
Available sources show Anthony Fauci’s household earnings have included federal salary, royalties and other payments that totaled about $1.78 million in 2020 and more than $3.5 million in 2023 accordi...
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s handling of the COVID‑19 pandemic drew a wide spectrum of criticisms ranging from allegations of promoting a preferred origin narrative to complaints about shifting public‑health g...
Anthony Fauci was a leading U.S. government researcher and policymaker on HIV/AIDS beginning in the early 1980s, helping push for research funding and clinical-trial networks at the NIH/NIAID . Claims...
Dr. Anthony Fauci, as director of NIAID and a senior U.S. public health official during the Obama administration, did not personally visit the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2015 as some viral images ...
Claims that Dr. Anthony Fauci “lied about COVID” concentrate on three threads: alleged concealment of U.S. funding or oversight of Wuhan research, tactical communications about masks/herd immunity, an...
The claim that Dr. Anthony Fauci personally funded the "Wuhan Institute of neurology" finds in the materials provided for this analysis; none of the supplied documents link Fauci or NIAID grant funds ...
Documents and reporting show the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and NIAID provided funding to EcoHealth Alliance, which subcontracted work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) on bat corona...
NIH/NIAID funded EcoHealth Alliance grants that supported collaborative work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology; NIH later acknowledged at least one experiment funded through that grant produced a bat...
Available reporting shows Anthony (not “Donald”) Fauci is a former federal official who retired from government service in December 2022 and has since operated outside a formal federal employment role...
Available reporting in the provided documents shows Anthony (Tony) Fauci retired from federal service in December 2022 and has since appeared in public events, lectures and private engagements; multip...
A joint investigation by CBS News and The Post and Courier identified nearly $28 million in canceled federal grants tied to controversial animal experiments, but the reporting names only a handful of ...
Between 2014 and 2019, EcoHealth Alliance was the recipient of multiple U.S. federal research awards; public reporting and government audits identify a major NIAID/NIH award launched in 2014 often rep...
Emergency medicine guidelines define anaphylaxis as a rapid-onset, potentially life‑threatening, systemic hypersensitivity reaction that can involve multiple organ systems and commonly appears within ...
Under Anthony Fauci’s leadership beginning in 1984, NIAID pivoted from a modest institute into the nation’s—and arguably the world’s—central hub for HIV/AIDS research by expanding funding, creating a ...
The shorthand claim "Fauci knew" refers to multiple contested assertions: that Dr. Anthony Fauci knew the U.S. funded coronavirus work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), that he knew such work ...
Fact‑checkers and independent reporters have repeatedly found that many viral claims about Dr. Anthony Fauci’s pandemic statements were misleading, taken out of context, or false, while also documenti...
Congressional hearings and related committee reports produced a large volume of documents and claims but—according to available reporting—no single smoking‑gun, direct piece of scientific evidence pro...