Fauci, Walensky testify amid child vaccine rollout, Wuhan lab funding controversy
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci are appearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Thursday morning for a hearing titled, "Next Steps: The Road Ahead for the COVID-19 Response.
While the stated intent behind the hearing is to look forward at how to handle the pandemic, it is more than likely that senators will also be looking to past actions and decisions by Fauci and his agency, both related to coronavirus and otherwise. Committee member Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was among lawmakers who sent letters in recent days regarding funding for "gain-of-function" research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and experimentation on puppies. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, responds to questions by Senator Rand Paul during the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on July 20, 2021. (Photo by J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) ((Photo by J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)) Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, testify before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Capitol hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 20, 2021. J. Scott Applewhite/Pool via REUTERS (J. Scott Applewhite/Pool via REUTERS) Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) speaks at a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on July 20, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images) (Stefani Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)
The letter regarding gain-of-function research, was sent on Oct. 29 to Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health – of which Fauci's agency is a part. It was in reference to the NIH's removal from their website of a section which defined that sort of research as "a type of research that modifies a biological agent so that it confers new or enhanced activity to that agent."
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