Meet Dr. Peter Hotez. Dr Hotez has spent the last few years going on TV as an expert to disavow and vaccine skepticism and criticized republicans and lab leak theory, even though the NIH funded his research into lab leak of a virus before Covid!
In 2020 Dr Hotez went on the Joe Rogan Experience where he said chloroquine was used in a small trial and worked well, although he later suggested not using it. He’s also used his platform to suggest the Department of Homeland Security and the DOJ investigate people who spread Covid misinformation, and was an avid opponent to removing mask mandates from kids.
What you probably didn’t know: Hotez funded research at the Wuhan Lab where they combined different Covid strands into one, even though he avidly fought against an investigation into the lab leak theory.
He was also given a grant from the NIH in 2012 to research a vaccine against SARS due to possible zoonotic reintroduction into humans, accidental release from a laboratory or deliberate spreading of the virus through bioterrorism.
Hotez continuously discredited the lab leak theory and called it a far-right conspiracy even though he actually had a grant to research lab leak theory before the Covid outbreak.
