In an email to Daszak, Morens wrote “Tony [Dr. Fauci] is now fully aware I think and is I am told involved in some sort of damage control.” In turn, Daszak agrees to contact Dr. Morens via gmail instead of his government email account, which was “FOIA’d constantly.” According to Morens, “Tony doesn’t want his fingerprints on origin stories,” and so on. While this plays out, consider the experience of Dr. Jonathan Fishbein as director of the NIH’s Office for Policy in Clinical Research Operations.

The biologist and medical safety expert, who earned his MD at Johns Hopkins, was fired after flagging misconduct in Dr. Fauci’s trial of nevirapine to treat AIDS. Dr. Fishbein was fully vindicated, and it was also revealed that Dr. Fauci’s AIDS study in Africa violated federal safety regulations. Dr. Fishbein did not return to his position, but as he told Robert F. Kennedy (The Real Anthony Fauci) the safety expert had learned a crucial lesson.

Dealing with Tony Fauci is like dealing with organized crime. He’s like the godfather.