Fauci and Rand Paul have terse exchange: 'You do not know what you are talking about'

Dr. Anthony Fauci and Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky erupted in a contentious debate over the origins of the coronavirus during a hearing Tuesday on Capitol Hill, prompting the nation’s top infectious disease expert to once again rebuke Paul.

At issue were Paul’s unfounded claims that the National Institutes of Health played a role in funding research that led to the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic.

“Sen. Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly. And I want to say that officially,” Fauci told Paul who has repeatedly, without evidence, suggested that the NIH funded so-called gain-of-function research – work