Scientists who have received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, nominated Fauci for prizes before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to emails made public by the office of Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs, on July 24.
Charles Dinarello, a professor of medicine and immunology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, nominated Fauci for a Dan David Prize in 2020, a $1 million award given by a foundation in Israel, the emails show.
Dinarello wrote in one email that Fauci and Greg Folkers, an aide who worked closely with Fauci, did “most of the work” on the submission….