On Tuesday evening, White House Chief Medical Adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci was booed as he received an award at the Seattle Mariners’ and New York Yankees’ baseball game.
Portions of the crowd at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, Washington, booed Fauci as he threw the ceremonial first pitch at the stadium for the game.
“You’re going to miss this like you did the pandemic, loser!” yelled one detractor.
Fauci was there to receive an honorary Hutch award, traditionally given to a figure who “best exemplifies the determined spirit of the late Fred Hutchinson, a pitcher and manager who died of cancer in 1964 at age 45.” Fauci is the second individual to receive the award, following former President Jimmy Carter in 2016.
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Fauci threw the pitch to the Seattle Mariners’ manager Scott Servais who then had Fauci sign his facemask, the Associated Press reported.
Fauci has been under fire lately from members of Congress, largely led by Rand Paul (R-KY) who confronted the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director on the alleged gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, not long before the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Wuhan was the first place where COVID-19 was detected in humans.
National Institutes of Health Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak admitted in October 2021 that the agency funded gain-of-function research in the lab between June 2018 and May 2019.
Last week, Dr. Richard Ebright, a Rutgers University microbiologist, testified before the U.S. Senate, claiming that top public health officials lied about dangerous gain-of-function research experiments conducted in China.
Ebright testified that the National Institutes of Health and other U.S. federal agencies funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology without proper oversight. His claim directly contradicts those made by many officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and President Biden’s chief medical advisor who has repeatedly dismissed the claims as lies.
Fauci has been defiant to Paul’s claims that he will be investigated should Republicans take back the house in 2022 and has stood by claims that he only ever acted in the best interests of the country and the American people.
“All I have ever done — and go back and look at everything I’ve ever done — was to recommend common sense, good, CDC-recommended public health policies that have saved millions of lives,” Fauci said on CNN’s “New Day,” hosted by John Berman. “If you wanna investigate me for that, go ahead.”
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