On monkeypox, Paul says that “the government looks like they’re going to screw this up the same way they did COVID.”
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul predicted that a GOP majority in Congress would “get to the bottom” of the origins of COVID-19, something that still hasn’t been fully investigated.
“I think most of the mainstream media has kept off of the airwaves a discussion of gain-of-function research or the origins of the virus, but we will get to the bottom of this,” Paul said on a conference call with reporters. “It’s going to take control of committees …
“I’ve talked to Jim Jordan and others about investigating this. I think there’s a great deal of interest in investigating the origins of the virus. I’m very interested in it, but it depends on elections. Elections have consequences. We’ll have to see what happens in November.”
Republicans and moderate Democrats have called on Democratic congressional leaders to establish a commission to investigate the origins of COVID-19. Such a commission was never formed. Under the Democrat-led Congress, the relevant committees haven’t fully investigated the origins of the virus or China’s handling of the initial outbreak. Paul himself held the first congressional hearing on gain-of-function research earlier this month.
Paul was asked for his opinion of the Biden administration’s handling of monkeypox and whether he thinks it could reach the level of a pandemic.
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