Sen. Rand Paul tackles the pandemic in his new book at Reagan Library

Sen. Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, discussed his recently released book at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley on Tuesday, February 20.

In his book “Deception: The Great Covid Cover-Up,” released in October and published by Regnery Publishing, Paul slammed Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for misleading the nation about the origins of the pandemic, which he said emerged from a research lab in Wuhan, China.

Paul is a former physician, was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010, and since then has advocated for limited government and fiscal conservatism among other issues. The author of six books, he graduated from Baylor University and Duke University School of Medicine with a degree in ophthalmology. Paul is also the founder of the Southern Kentucky Lions Eye Clinic, which provides eye exams and surgery to low-income families.

In April, Paul accused Former Chief Medical Advisor to the President Anthony Fauci of committing “one of the worst judgment errors” in his tackling of the pandemic.

During Tuesday’s event attended by several hundreds of guests, Paul said that Fauci had funded research at Wuhan Virology Institute in China that eventually caused the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a report released last year, U.S. intelligence agencies wrote that there was no evidence that the pandemic started from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. The report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence found that the U.S. intelligence agencies didn’t rule out the possibility that the pandemic originated from the lab. The agency also didn’t pinpoint what had caused the outbreak.

Christopher Wray, the FBI director, said last year that his agency has studied the origins of the pandemic and found that it stemmed from an incident that happened at the lab in Wuhan. The Chinese government has long denied the claims that it started in their country.

Asked during the Q&A session what has to happen to military members who refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccine, Paul said military personnel along with firemen, policemen, nurses, and doctors “should be reinstated with back pay.”