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here to the united states until then president trump put in the china travel ban which was dec declared 2019, that means they had to have the dna. they did not share that until january 10th, we could have started sooner, 4 to 6 weeks sooner, they denied human-to-human transmission, denied it could be transmitted even with asymptomatic people, we found out was so important as well. so they had more than just good faith mistakes. united states was funding this type of research through ecohealth for decades. they need to be held accountable as well. and they describe it as viral gain of function research we were funding with american dollars. john: i think we are just tipping the iceberg here. sandra: historic hearing on capitol hill, it s happening
hearing we had on origins back in june of 2001. the reason we need to know is that the international community we need to know what kind of research is being done. gain of function research prohibited. then the nih rescinded their predictprohibition. are they trying to hide this because there was indirect funding of gain of function research. was there personal financial gain? do they feel complicit that they allowed a type of research that may have led to the virus becoming more contagious and more easily transmitted in humans? so we need to know about lab safety. there was not proper oversight by nih or by ecohealth of this laboratory. there wasn t disclosure when they knew that the virus was contagious. and there was human-to-human transmission. so we need to know those things and that s why it s important that we know the origins and why why we have these oversight hearings to hold dr. fauci
your opinion was being completely shut down. because there s so much focus and rightfully so on the lack of transparency, do you think in the early days, if they had been more open to this idea that the virus looked like it had been genetically engineered and similar to the kind of thing that they were working on in the lab, you think we could have gotten closer to the origins and gotten more out of china in the early days? yeah, i don t think there s any question of that. i was in conversations with my counterpart on new year s eve in the first week of january offering to put a team of about 20 people in to help him discern what was going on, particularly to learn whether there was evidence of human-to-human transmission. he said there was no human to hu march for asymptomatic transmission, both of which were wrong. it was very unusual because in the past, as i head of cdc and
virus. and we soon realize infections from a novel coronavirus are fueling a fast-spreading global pandemic. by mid month the first u.s. case of covid reported in washington state. health experts conclude the outbreak is due to human-to-human transmission. it s really a big difference with the chinese this time now they look like they are being quite transparent and cooperative with us. inian of last year fox news obtained internal from the national institutes of health. those emails from the earliest days of the crisis revealed nih head dr. anthony fauci was warned covid may have leaked from a chinese government-run lab. the wuhan institute of virology. ian 27th, fauci is told the national institute of allergy an infectious diseases has been indirectly funding the wuhan lab through ecohealth alliance, a u.s.-based scientific nonprofit that had been working with novel coronavirus.