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And then three months later, shazam, they get 9 million bucks from Dr. Fauci. Well, isn’t that something.

Jim Jordan · A hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic · March 8, 2023

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No Evidence Scientists Received Grant for Changing Opinion on Pandemic Origins, Contrary to Claims

FactCheck.org · no rating scale · March 17, 2023 · read the check

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Checked against NIH RePORTER, project U01AI151812 (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Scripps Research, contact investigator Kristian Andersen): a new award with a notice date of May 21, 2020, about two months after the March 17, 2020 paper, whose five base years sum to $8,874,645 ($1,883,223, $1,757,660, $1,749,860, $1,741,300 and $1,742,602 for fiscal years 2020 to 2024); the record shows the amount and date, not why the award was made.

The record: NIH RePORTER: project 1U01AI151812-01, West African Emerging Infectious Disease Research Center (NIAID; notice date May 21, 2020)

Context

Jordan was describing scientists who changed their view of the origin of COVID-19 after a February 1, 2020 conference call with Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins.

Topics: Coronavirus, Science.

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  1. No Evidence Scientists Received Grant for Changing Opinion on Pandemic Origins, Contrary to Claims · FactCheck.org · 2023-03-17 · accessed 2026-09-25
  2. NIH RePORTER: project 1U01AI151812-01, West African Emerging Infectious Disease Research Center (NIAID; notice date May 21, 2020) · National Institutes of Health · accessed 2026-10-15

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