“At a Senate hearing in May, Dr. Fauci said, ‘The NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.’ That was under oath, under testimony. On October 20th, the NIH principal deputy director in writing directly contradicted it.”
What Washington Post found
Cruz is spinning an NIH letter as confirming what it does not say. He is welcome to offer an opinion about its meaning. But, so far, it’s not a fact that NIH has admitted funding gain-of-function research.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ted Cruz (Senator (R-Tex.)) made this claim around 27 October 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 29 October 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “Two Pinocchios”.
Ted Cruz has 24 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 10 of them false or fake, 10 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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