The right wing machine is working overtime to try to smear Dr. Anthony Fauci and blame the pandemic crisis on Obama. The claim is that Fauci, under Obama, pushed to give the Wuhan lab $3.7 million to study this Coronavirus and Wuhan lab made the virus more possible to infect humans. This is yet again a completely false and misleading smear attack.
First, Trump, himself, was the one that most recently sent the money, approving $700,000 just in 2019. Overall, Trump has sent over $1.9 million in grants to the organization since 2017. Trump sent about $600,000 in 2017, another about $600,000 in 2018, and two disbursements of close to $700,000 in 2019. Of the $3.7 million sent, Trump sent half. Obama did not send $3.7 million.
Second, Obama/Fauci never sent any money to the Wuhan lab. The money went to an international organization called Ecohealth Alliance that was helping fund scientific research around the world in response to the SARS outbreak. Ecohealth Alliance sent funding to some of the SARS research programs in the lab. You can see from the document below that Trump likewise funded Ecohealth Alliance which was in turn funding some of the research in the Wuhan lab.
These right wing smears are false and need to be countered with facts. Below is the list of the amounts sent and years.
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