On July 27, 2020, Kristian Andersen wrote to Dr. Anthony Fauci regarding their Feb. 1, 2020, secret teleconference that took place at the onset of the COVID pandemic. Andersen’s reach-out to Fauci was prompted by an email Andersen received from Science’s writer Jon Cohen, who had been provided with an insider’s whistleblower tip regarding important details of Fauci’s secret teleconference. On the face of it, Andersen’s email appears almost benign. But when combined with what we know of that February teleconference, a very different picture emerges—one that highlights a coverup of the initial coverup.
Interestingly, it was Cohen who inadvertently prompted Fauci’s secret teleconference in the first place. On Jan. 31, 2020, the journal Science published an article written by Cohen that indirectly linked to a 2015 research paper that held proof that Fauci’s NIAID had funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Cohen’s article, which appears to have been based on input from scientists who would later be part of Fauci’s teleconference group, took pains to discount the lab leak theory, noting that the viral sequences “knock down the idea the pathogen came from a virology institute in Wuhan.” …