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While the media and the D.C. political class were mesmerized by the latest January 6 select committee hearing, Senator Rand Paul faced off with Dr. Anthony Fauci in a rematch during a Thursday hearing on the pandemic response and the Biden regime’s recommendation that everyone above 5-years-old should receive booster shots.
The octogenarian top medical adviser to President Biden who has been stricken with COVID despite receiving multiple jabs testified remotely before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee where he again sparred with the Kentucky Republican who has been his more dogged congressional critic.
‘Dr. Fauci, the government recommends everybody take a booster over age five,” Paul said, “are you aware of any studies that show reduction in hospitalization or death for children who take a booster?”
The career bureaucrat who has been dug in as the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since Ronald Reagan’s first term, ducked and dodged Paul’s question in his typical slippery manner.
“So there are no studies and Americans should all know this,” Paul responded, “There are no studies on children showing a reduction in hospitalization or death with taking a booster, the only studies that were permitted, the only studies that were presented were antibody studies so they say if we give you a booster, now, a lot of scientists would question whether or not that’s proof of efficacy of a vaccine.”
“If I give you 10, or if I give a patient 10 MRNA vaccines and they make protein each time, or they make an antibody each time, is that proof that we should give 10 boosters, Dr. Fauci?” Senator Paul asked of the man who has been America’s face of COVID since the domestic outbreak.
“No,” answered Fauci. “I think that is somewhat of an absurd exaggeration Senator Paul,” as the testimony became increasingly heated, at one point causing Paul to exclaim, “That’s not science, that’s conjecture!”
The government recommends a booster for children despite Fauci admittedly not having any evidence to support their decision.
"That's not science. That's conjecture. And we should not be making public policy on it." pic.twitter.com/fbZgBgN85Q
— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) June 16, 2022
Later in the session, Paul put Fauci on the spot over the unwillingness of the government to disclose the names of scientists who made bank on the vaccines, possibly including himself.
“Can you tell me that you have not received a royalty from any entity that you ever oversaw the distribution of money in research grants?” Paul asked the squirming Fauci who declined to give a direct answer, setting off an intense exchange with the lawmaker.
I asked, "Can you tell me if anyone on the vaccine approval committees ever received money from the people who make vaccines?"
Fauci : "People who receive royalties are not required to divulge them." pic.twitter.com/a0YIm2jfvZ
— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) June 16, 2022
“Why don’t you let us know?” Paul persisted. “Why don’t you reveal how much you’ve gotten and from what entities? The NIH refuses, look, we asked them, we asked them, the NIH we asked them whether or not, who got it and how much, they refused to tell us, they sent it redacted, here’s what I want to know, it’s not just about you, everybody on the vaccine committee, have any of them ever received money from the people who make vaccines? Can you tell me that?”
Twitter users reacted to Paul’s futile effort to extract the truth from the evasive bureaucrat, including the frustrated senator himself.
Today I asked Fauci a simple question: Are there any studies that show a reduction in hospitalization or death for children that take a booster?
His answer: No
Then why is the government recommending it?— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) June 16, 2022
In terms of his congressional confrontations with Fauci – some of which have been truly epic – Thursday’s hearing was more subdued but the one thing that’s consistent is the top national health expert’s reluctance to provide a concise and truthful answer to the questions that have been raised.
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You go Sen. Paul. Fauci is a lying fake. He is anti-science and pro-gubment. He should be investigated for taking royalty payments and other unethical activity as suggested by Dr. Paul.
So no transparency on profits from a experimental drug of those pushing the drug! Huummm nothingness here to see! Never got the vaccine and never will! Only 99 point something of the population will survive anyways with or without the so called vaccine… Everything from the beginning of this so called vaccine has been a lie. Everything from the beginning of this so-called pandemic has been a lie ! Two weeks bend the curve, face masks, lockdowns, School being shut down, then the vaccines who the Dems didn’t trust until Biten got in office then it was the most effective.. Vaccine will protect against getting the virus and passing it, then protects against severe illness and death, then reinfections. Then we need boosters first one now two! But people still got it past it and died from it! And it continues today with little children… but they won’t tell who is making a profit from all of this! Then I read they found a gene in one of six of us that could have lead to the deaths from the virus. Huuum that article disappeared really quick… opps it got out … check for it, very interesting, basically saying the the vaccine meant nothing!
Fauchi is a fraud. He’s been lying about the virus and vaccines from the start. Running cover for China and trying to hide his involvement in creating this disease. Flip flop Fauchi is a disgrace. No way he should be involved with the health decisions in our country. IMO, Fauchi is responsible for many of the covid related deaths. His fear mongering caused many to not get treatment for diseases unrelated to covid. How many have died because of that? It’s obvious that this man was making decisions to profit from them. Eventually the truth will come out, but unfortunately Fauchi will probably be dead by then. I know he said that if Trump wins in 2024 he will retire. We can’t afford for him to wait that long. Hopefully in November things will change. Fire Fauchi now.
Faux Fauci, Butthead, Alfred E. Newman, Covid Face Fauci, Liar, Con-man, who wants to turn Nasty Nancy into Mrs. Fauci the 2nd is the definative example of ambiguity while refusing to give Congress straight forward answers for a reason. Hes a liar who played the system just like Nancy, Nadler, Biden and the rest of the Political thieves.