Remember when the mainstream media was shoving the "natural origin of COVID-19 theory" down our throats? At that time, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), firmly took the reins of the pandemic, stepping up to the podium on a daily basis throughout 2020 and 2021 to assure us that his agency had it all under control.

As it turns out, Fauci appears to be the architect and the cover-up of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the director of NIAID for nearly 40 years, an organization with an annual budget of $6 billion, he wields great power in the federal agency and across many branches of government. It seems he also enlisted the help of four prominent scientists to do his bidding.

What is interesting is that these four scientists clearly supported his theory that the virus was leaked from the Wuhan lab in China, only to later do a complete turnaround and heavily push the theory of natural origin.

Who are they?

On February 1, 2020, Fauci held a secret teleconference with four scientists: Kristian Anderson, Robert Garry, Michael Farzan, and Peter Daszak. This emergency call occurred after the discovery that NIAID and the Wuhan Institute of Virology had funding ties. During that call, three of the four scientists said they were fairly certain the virus had been leaked from a lab. Two days later, on February 3, a paper was released entitled The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2  purporting a natural theory, meaning, the virus had evolved on its own in nature. In that paper, Kristian Andersen and Robert Garry proposed two scenarios to explain the origin of the SARS-CoV2 virus. Both were natural origin theories, meaning a human needed to come into close contact with, or consume, an infected animal for genetic modification of the virus to occur. This became known as 'the wet market bat soup theory.'

Since the February teleconference call, these scientists have collectively received over $50 million in NIAID funding a substantial increase in academic funding over many previous years.

Fauci set up an $82 million special grant initiative within NIAID called Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases (CREID). This global network involves multidisciplinary investigations into how and where viruses and other pathogens can emerge from wildlife and spillover to cause disease in people. Research is led by 10 Centers and one Coordinating Center and will involve collaborations with peer institutions in the United States and 28 other countries.