This was a very surprising thing to see in the Weekend Australian magazine; a very detailed exposure of Robert Kadlec, former assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the US Department of Health, and others in the Covid lab release cover-up. Kadlec, Dr Fauci and National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins, worked in the early stages of the Covid plandemic, to divert attention away from the likely lab leak from the communist Wuhan Institute of virology.
According to Kadlec: “I think Tony Fauci was trying to protect his institution and his own reputation from the possibility that his agency was funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers who, beyond the scope of the grants received from the National Institutes of Health, may have been working with People’s Liberation Army researchers on defensive coronavirus vaccines.” “I think it’s evident from his later released emails (obtained via Freedom of Information requests) that he had more sense of what his institute had funded at that moment. This was a reputational risk to him and his institute and certainly he probably sided with the international scientists that believed that false or unsubstantiated accusations could have a chilling effect on scientific collaboration between the western world and China.”