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What Fauci has said about COVID origins and gain-of-function research in his spat with Rand Paul

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Fauci and Rand Paul have clashed repeatedly over whether U.S. funding quietly enabled the very research that may have sparked COVID-19.

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What Fauci has said about COVID origins and gain-of-function research in his spat with Rand Paul

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  • The precise origin of SARS-CoV-2 remains officially unsettled, keeping both the lab-leak and natural-spillover theories alive.
  • Fauci and Senator Rand Paul have publicly sparred over whether NIH-funded research at Wuhan constitutes gain-of-function experimentation.
  • The dispute hinges on how 'gain-of-function' is defined — a definitional fight with enormous consequences for who bears responsibility.
  • No definitive evidence has publicly resolved whether the virus emerged from a lab incident or jumped from animals to humans naturally.
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