Fauci Adviser Who Allegedly ‘deleted federal records’ Subpoenaed In House COVID-19 Origins Probe; Sacramento Event Hosting Anthony Fauci Lecture Met by Protest Against US COVID Response, and other C-Virus related stories
Fauci adviser who allegedly ‘deleted federal records’ subpoenaed in House COVID-19 origins probe:
A longtime top adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has been accused of deleting federal records by Republican lawmakers, has been subpoenaed by the House panel investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. David Morens, the recipient of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic’s Friday subpoena, served as Fauci’s senior adviser at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1998 until former NIAID chief’s retirement at the end of last year.
The GOP-led panel alleges that Morens “likely used his personal email to delete COVID origins documents and evade [Freedom of Information Act] laws.”
The subpoena against Morens comes after the National Institutes of Health failed to respond to a request for information issued by the panel last month, and then produced a “lackluster” amount of documentation – “only two pages” – responsive to separate October request, according to COVID subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio).
“This obstruction will not be tolerated,” Wenstrup warned in a letter informing NIH Acting Director Lawrence Tabak about the subpoena issued to Morens, which called the allegations against the NIAID employee “highly concerning.”
“The documents of Dr. Morens are potentially necessary to inform this investigation, including but not limited to his knowledge of information regarding the origins of COVID-19,” the letter continues.
Wenstrup argues that the documents potentially deleted from on Morens personal email account may point to an effort by government officials to cover up evidence that the virus which led to the coronavirus pandemic came from a Chinese lab. —>READ MORE HERE
Sacramento event hosting Anthony Fauci lecture met by protest against US COVID response
About 25 people gathered Wednesday night in downtown Sacramento in protest, as Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former chief medical advisor to the president, was the featured guest in a local speaker series.
Bethany Denkers, one of the organizers of the protest, said they gathered to demonstrate their opposition to federal action, led by Fauci, on COVID-19 protocols and mandates during the height of the pandemic.
“We decided to come together as a group and honor those lives that have been lost to the vaccines due to them being inadequately tested and that mandates being forced through that weren’t necessary,” Denkers said. “This is just a means of conveying a message and honoring lives that were lost because of his negligence.”
On Wednesday, Fauci was the featured guest of the Sacramento Speaker Series, a community lecture program at the SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center at 13th and L streets.
Fauci, a scientist and physician, played a key role in the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic He is widely considered to be one of the country’s most trusted medical experts.
He was the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022. In that time, he advised seven U.S. presidents on infectious disease threats spanning from HIV/AIDS to Ebola to Zika. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush in 2008.
In the early stages of the pandemic, Fauci called upon all Americans to adopt social distancing measures to help reduce the expected surge of COVID-19 cases. As vaccines became available, Fauci encouraged everyone to get vaccinated and to create herd immunity against the contagious virus. In a February 2021 interview with Reuters, Fauci said political polarization contributed to the high coronavirus death toll in the United States as wearing masks became a “political statement” instead of a public health precaution.
As of Tuesday, more than 1.1 million COVID-19 deaths have been reported in the United States, according to Johns Hopkins University. —>READ MORE HERE
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