这位参议员指责福奇支持武汉病毒研究所的功能获得性研究，犯下了“严重的判断错误”
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肯塔基州共和党参议员兰德·保罗认为，在周三的参议院听证会之前，安东尼·福奇博士最应该向美国人做一件事：道歉。
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安东尼·福奇博士曾在两届政府中担任新冠疫情首席发言人，主导了在全球和美国肆虐多年的病毒相关政策与信息发布工作。
但肯塔基州共和党参议员兰德·保罗指出，在福奇所有的媒体露面、人物专访、访谈和国会听证会上，有一件事他从未提及：他曾为此道歉。
“我真想听到他说一句抱歉，”保罗说道，“他能为资助——那些在中国进行的危险研究——道歉吗？几乎所有人都认同那是危险的研究。”
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2024年6月3日，华盛顿特区，美国前国家过敏和传染病研究所所长安东尼·福奇博士抵达雷伯恩众议院办公大楼，出席众议院监督与问责委员会新冠疫情调查小组委员会的作证听证会。（盖蒂图片社）
“现在他却说，‘哦，好吧，这不符合这个或那个定义，那是危险的研究’，”保罗继续说道，“那是判断失误，是严重的判断失误。”
保罗与福奇将于周三上午在兰德·保罗担任主席的国土安全与政府事务委员会展开对决，这场对峙酝酿已久。
在周三听证会前夕，保罗公开了超过1000页福奇的日记，并在网上就福奇在疫情前及疫情期间的动机发表了自己的评论。
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这位议员自新冠疫情爆发之初就将矛头对准福奇，指责他资助了可能导致病毒最终暴发的中国研究。
尽管福奇已于2022年从美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）下属的国家过敏和传染病研究所所长职位上退休，淡出公众视野，但两人终于迎来了当面对峙、了结积怨的机会。
“我认为如果他能站出来为这项研究的资助道歉，他在听证会上的表现会好得多，”保罗说，“没人听过他的道歉，他们听到的全是他从未做错任何事、这一切都没有问题的论调。”
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肯塔基州共和党参议员兰德·保罗主持国土安全与政府事务委员会。（安德鲁·哈尼克/盖蒂图片社）
保罗曾表示，这位前总统首席医疗顾问因被指资助功能获得性研究而应该入狱，并警告称前总统乔·拜登对他的赦免不会生效。
值得注意的是，福奇在国家过敏和传染病研究所的前高级顾问戴维·莫伦斯博士于今年早些时候被司法部起诉，罪名是涉嫌合谋规避公共记录法、隐瞒有关新冠疫情起源的沟通内容并销毁联邦记录。
功能获得性研究，即增强病毒传播性或致死性的研究，以及福奇据称通过其在中国武汉病毒研究所的职位资助此类研究的行为，多年来一直是保罗打击这位前新冠疫情负责人的核心议题。
保罗还指出，研究病毒传播或其致死潜力的议题早在疫情之前就已存在。
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保罗指责称，2010年荷兰病毒学家罗恩·福奇耶开展的研究培育出了可“通过空气在哺乳动物之间传播”的H5N1禽流感病毒变种。
“半数科学界人士都说，‘我的天，这可能会终结世界，我们不该这么做’，”保罗说道。
“而福奇站在另一边，当时他在《华盛顿邮报》的专栏文章中写道，即使科学家因被叮咬或其他方式感染而引发大流行，所获得的知识也值得承担风险，”保罗继续说道，“这需要全国范围内展开辩论：创造出可能毁灭世界的病毒所获得的知识，是否值得承担这些风险？我认为不值得。”
亚历克斯·米勒是福克斯新闻数字频道负责报道美国参议院的撰稿人。
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The senator accused Fauci of a ‘profound judgment error’ in backing gain-of-function work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., believes that above all else, Dr. Anthony Fauci owes Americans one thing ahead of his Senate hearing on Wednesday: an apology.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci ran point as the COVID-19 explainer-in-chief under two different administrations, steering policy and messaging on the virus that rattled the country and world for years.
But there is one thing in all of his media appearances, profiles, interviews and congressional hearings that Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., contended Fauci never said: that he was sorry.
“I mean, I’d like to hear him say he’s sorry,” Paul said. “Can he say he is sorry for funding — the research was dangerous research in China? Almost everybody agrees with that.”
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, arrives to testify before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic at the Rayburn House Office Building on June 3, 2024, in Washington, D.C.(Getty Images)
“Now he says, ‘Oh, well, it didn’t meet this definition or this definition, it was dangerous research,” he continued. “It was a judgment error. It was a profound judgment error.”
Paul and Fauci are set to square off Wednesday morning in the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the panel that Paul leads, in a clash that has been years in the making.
In the lead up to Wednesday’s hearing, Paul unveiled over 1,000 pages of Fauci’s diary, providing his own color commentary online about Fauci’s motivations leading up to and during the pandemic.
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The lawmaker has had his sights set on Fauci since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and accused him of funding research in China that led to the eventual outbreak of the virus.
And though Fauci has been out of the public spotlight since 2022, when he stepped down from his role as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the two will finally get the chance to square up and settle the feud.
“I think he actually could do better in the hearing if he’d come forward and apologize for funding this research,” Paul said. “No one’s ever heard an apology from him. All they hear is sort of the idea that he never did anything wrong and that there’s nothing wrong with that.”
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., leads the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Paul has said that the former chief medical advisor to the president deserves to be in prison for his alleged role in funding gain-of-function research, and warned that his pardon from former President Joe Biden wouldn’t hold up.
Notably, Fauci’s former top advisor at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. David Morens, was indicted by the Justice Department earlier this year on charges of allegedly conspiring to evade public records laws, hide communications regarding the origins of COVID-19, and destroy federal records.
Gain-of-function research, or work that enhances a virus’s transmissibility or lethality, and Fauci’s alleged role in funding that type of research through his position at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China has been Paul’s focal point for years in his crusade against the former COVID-19 czar.
And he argued that the issue of researching the spread of a virus, or its killing potential, predates the pandemic.
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Paul charged that in 2010, research conducted by Ron Fouchier, a Dutch virologist, produced a version of H5N1, commonly known as bird flu, that was transmissible “through the air between mammals.”
“And half the scientific community said, ‘Oh my God, this could be the end of the world. We’re doing this s—,’” Paul said.
“And Fauci was on the other side, and he said at the time in a Washington Post op-ed that even if a pandemic should occur from a scientist being bitten or somehow infected, the knowledge is worth the risk,” he continued. “That needs to be debated by the country. Is the knowledge of creating viruses that could kill the world worth the risks? And I don’t think it is.”
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.