Category: Commentary

Hansen: what happened in the first 100 days

As NIAID Director (a position he has held since 1984), Fauci circumvented the moratorium by offshoring the banned research to China, while keeping the federal government in the dark. He and his colleagues would bury this fact by wielding pseudoscience (to establish a natural origin for the virus), and ridiculing skeptics as conspiracists and anti-Chinese racists.

Hansen: Feds caved to Big Pharma, people got hurt

In April 2020, NIAID Director Anthony Fauci announced that antiviral remdesivir (sold by Gilead Sciences at $3,120 per patient for a treatment course) would become the standard of care for hospitalized COVID-19 patients. This decision came in spite of international studies proving that remdesivir does not provide significant clinical benefits.