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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...
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...
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...
funding connected to -area research began publicly surfacing in reporting around a 2014 grant that subcontracted work to Chinese institutions including the ; investigators and journalists have since d...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
The administration’s would collapse ’s current 27 institutes and centers into eight new entities, keep only three existing institutes largely intact (the National Cancer Institute, the National Instit...
is the ’ best-known infectious-disease physician of the past four decades, who rose to national prominence as NIAID director and medical adviser during and who announced a planned December departure a...
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 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...
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...
An analysis of reporting finds the largest documented drops in awards concentrated in infectious disease and minority-health portfolios, with major hits to cancer programs and also prominent in the co...
Primary-source material documenting ’s role in early AIDS research and policy exists across government presentations, internal / strategy documents, contemporaneous interviews and oral histories, and ...
Primary documents released through litigation and reporting include grant awards and Notices of Award, internal NIH emails and letters about suspension and termination of ’s 2014–2025 bat‑coronavirus ...
The and its largest AIDS player, , moved from scattered early efforts into centralized leadership during the 1980s—designating NIAID the lead institute in 1985 and creating the NIH AIDS executive comm...