Fact check: Obama administration did not send $3.7 million to Wuhan labThen, if you read the article, it turns out that they gave the money to an NGO - EcoHealth Alliance - which they knew would send it to the Wuhan lab. Their reasoning:
“It's hard to do this work in other countries. Very complicated. It requires a lot of traveling. It would be so convenient if we could do it in our own backyards,” Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance, told USA TODAY. “The viruses that are a high risk to public health are not in the U.S., they are in China. If we want to know anything about the next pandemic, we need to be working in the countries where these viruses are.”Seems to me there are plenty of bats in North America including some in swampy places - think Louisiana, for example. I read somewhere the real reason it was being done in China is that the U.S. had banned gain-of-function research after some modified viruses leaked out of a U.S. lab putting Americans at risk.
Claiming our government didn't fund virus research in China is like claiming you didn't buy drugs if you had your friend buy them with your money. No court would buy that alibi. I fear this relatively feeble attempt at fact checking doesn't exonerate Dr. Fauci.
