UPDATE:
According to this, Taubenberger’s claim to fame is when he revived the Spanish flu from a body preserved in permafrost and when he spliced genes from the Spanish flu with contemporary H1N1 viruses.
He also referred to people concerned about the creation of H5N1 avian influenza virus as “the complaining crowd”.
Fauci’s Replacement at NIAID a Cheerleader for Gain-of-Function Research
Jeffrey Taubenberger, a 19-year veteran of NIAID who supports gain-of-function research and believes COVID-19 evolved naturally, is the new acting director of the agency Dr. Anthony Fauci led for 38 years.
A virologist who supports gain-of-function research and believes COVID-19 evolved naturally is the new acting director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the agency Dr. Anthony Fauci led for 38 years.
Jeffery Taubenberger, M.D., Ph.D., a 19-year veteran of NIAID and chief of the institute’s Viral Pathogenesis and Evolution Section, replaced Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, who was placed on leave last month by the Trump administration.
Citing an email from Dr. Matthew Memoli, deputy director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Science reported that Taubenberger’s first day as acting director was April 25. Taubenberger will head an institute with a $6.56 billion budget, making it the second-largest NIH branch, overseen by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Several researchers told Science that Taubenberger has a commendable track record, highlighting his work sequencing the Spanish flu virus of 1918.
Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, Ph.D., a virologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, said Taubenberger “has made many critical contributions to the field of influenza, both in pathogenesis, animal models, human data, and vaccines.”
But critics point to Taubenberger’s public support of gain-of-function research and the zoonotic theory of COVID-19’s origins, which holds that the virus crossed over naturally from animals to humans.
They also criticized his past ties to Fauci and other controversial virologists, and his prior work on COVID-19 vaccines. (See link for article)
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**Comment**
There truly is nothing new under the sun.
We already got a taste of bad replacements when Mandy Cohen replaced Rochelle Walensky as CDC director. Walensky pushed masks, criticized herd immunity, was one of the worst purveyors of misinformation, failed to report her financial conflicts of interest, and was behind officially naming and shaming the “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” based upon data the CDC manipulated.
Cohen has proven to be Walensky 2.0. She too is a mask and ‘vaccine’ pusher with severe conflicts of interest who takes photos with buddy Bill Gates. And similar to Fauci, Cohen has performed zero actual doctoring as it pertains to patients and is simply a power-hungry bureaucrat who will aid and abet the various agencies to strip away medical freedom. Her ‘expertise’ and ‘leadership’ derives from government scam agencies and indoctrination universities that were all instrumental in the COVID ‘plandemic’.
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