Senator Rand Paul clashed with Dr. Anthony Fauci at a hearing a Senate hearingDr. Anthony Fauci snaps back at Senator Paul during questioning about the origins of COVIDFact check on funding for Wuhan lab USA Today found it 'false' that any US funding led to the COVID outbreak. The project involved collaborating with researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology to study coronaviruses in bats and the risk of potential transfer to humans. In total, $3,378,896 in NIH funding was directed from the government to the project. In the second grant approved in 2019, about $76,000 was budgeted for the Wuhan Institute, though no money was sent before the grant's termination. But again, we have not funded gain of function research on this virus in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Source: Daily Mail May 11, 2021 16:21 UTC