Ex-FDA head Gottlieb: 'They were doing things in that lab that could be...dangerous to humans'

RealClearPolitics reports, "Pfizer board member and former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb weighed in on the new documents showing that the NIH did fund research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology despite repeated assurances from Dr. Anthony Fauci that it did not.

Breaking news Dr. Fauci and NIAID funded gain of function research with a coronavirus MERS (50% mortality!) recombined to create viruses not found in nature AND Fauci is still sending the Chinese $ through 2025!https://t.co/glDfvune8f

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) September 9, 2021

"Whether or not this [research] was gain-of-function is a political and legal discussion,' Gottlieb said. 'The bottom line is they were doing research on viruses in that institute that was making those viruses potentially more dangerous to humans. And handling the viruses in ways that could potentiate their release, particularly by infecting transgenic animals that have fully-humanized immune systems.'

"They were doing things in that lab that could have led to circumstances where a virus that was purposefully evolved in ways that it could be more dangerous to humans could have escaped," says @ScottGottliebMD. pic.twitter.com/KxWmL2ITnI

— Squawk Box (@SquawkCNBC) September 8, 2021

'They were doing things in that lab that could have led to circumstances where a virus that was purposefully evolved in ways that it could be more dangerous to humans could have escaped,' he explained."

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