Dr. Jeffrey Sachs says COVID on ‘massive government lie’, leaves Democrats

A prominent “lifelong Democrat” scholar and economist who chaired a COVID-19 commission blasted Dr. Anthony Fauci and others for promoting “massive government lies” about the coronavirus and accused Senate Democrats of refusing to investigate the origins of the virus.

Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia University professor who chaired a COVID-19 commission created by the medical journal “The Lancet,” said he has since left the Democratic Party after seeing how officials have behaved of the government around the origins of the virus.

“The sad part of this, not in terms of the vaccine per se, but in terms of the source of the virus, is that it’s another case of massive government lying,” Sachs said during an appearance in The Hill’s “Rising” show.

“We have since discovered early on that what the government told us about the ‘natural origins’ of this virus was unbelievable and really amounted to scientific fraud.”

Sachs said that even the scientists who wrote “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2” in the spring of 2020 “they didn’t even believe it while they were writing it because they knew there were so many clues that this could have come out of a US lab, or a Chinese lab, or a US . – China’s collaboration in research”.

Sachs admitted that he, too, bought into the mainstream media’s reporting of COVID-19 at the start of the pandemic, especially after a major scientific journal, “Nature,” said there was overwhelming evidence that the source was natural

He later credited reporting by The Intercept, USA Right to Know and whistleblowers for helping change his thinking.

“[They] started to let us in on what was actually said inside, it was shocking,” said Sachs, who added that after requesting a certain document he had been turned down by a colleague on the commission.

“I said, ‘Well, you can’t be on the commission. We are a transparent commission,” Sachs said. “And I started to see up close that there were so many lies coming out of the NIH [National Institutes of Health]coming out of Fauci, coming out, unfortunately, of the government protecting all of this and now it’s spilling over.”

Sachs insists that his desire to investigate the origin of COVID-19 has more to do with current and future research. He credited Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., for focusing on the gain-of-function research and for trying to persuade Democratic colleagues to look into the issue.

“It’s shocking to me that Democratic senators can’t understand that this is not a partisan issue,” Sachs said. “This is a matter of life and death. What kind of research is going on? What kind of laboratory manipulation is going on? What is going on under what we euphemistically…call our biodefense research? Because who knows what it really is? ?

“I have come to understand that there is a lot of dangerous research that is not being monitored, and that our Democratic senators, as well as Republicans, should find out what is going on. This is not about getting Fauci, this it’s not about the past, it’s about right now.”

Sachs ended his appearance with a plea to Senate Democrats.

“Come on, we need to understand what’s going on and we need to understand what kind of dangerous research is going on, and we need to understand where this virus is coming from,” he said.

“Open the books at the University of North Carolina, open the books at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories, understand the funding by the United States of the teams from the University of North Carolina and other universities with the Institute of Virology from Wuhan. We understand what really happened.”