:*2:48 a.m. EST - Fauci sent another email, to Dr. Robert Kadlec. Dr. Kadlec was the Trump-appointed Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the [[Department of Health and Human Services]]. Attached to this email was an article that downplayed the lab leak and advocated for an evolutionary origin to COVID-19. The email did not include the Baric-Shi paper that supported the original message from Dr. Andersen that COVID-19 looked engineered, was inconsistent with evolutionary theory, and linked American tax dollars to gain of function research at the Wuhan lab. Fauci simply wrote: | :*2:48 a.m. EST - Fauci sent another email, to Dr. Robert Kadlec. Dr. Kadlec was the Trump-appointed Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the [[Department of Health and Human Services]]. Attached to this email was an article that downplayed the lab leak and advocated for an evolutionary origin to COVID-19. The email did not include the Baric-Shi paper that supported the original message from Dr. Andersen that COVID-19 looked engineered, was inconsistent with evolutionary theory, and linked American tax dollars to gain of function research at the Wuhan lab. Fauci simply wrote: |