Did Dr. Fauci, Melinda Gates, and Barack Obama Visit a Wuhan Lab in 2015?

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A viral Facebook post from singer Ted Nugent claimed to show Dr. Anthony Fauci, Melinda Gates, and President Barack Obama at a research lab in Wuhan, China, in 2015. The post further alleges that the Obama administration “paid the lab $3.7 million for a ‘bat’ project.”

The photograph was not actually taken at a lab in Wuhan—it came from a trip Obama took to the National Institutes of Health Vaccine Research Center, in Bethesda, Maryland, in 2014 to meet with scientists working on combating the Ebola virus. The photo shows Obama talking to Dr. Nancy Sullivan of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, while Fauci and then-Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell—not Melinda Gates—stand nearby.

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  1. John R

    It must be exhausting. Thank You.

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  2. Nathan

    The idea this photo needed to be fact checked let’s me know I’m in Hell

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    Angie

    Way to go Alec...love these

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  4. Finny

    You question the posting of Maestro Nugent!?!? How DARE you, Sir.

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      BWG

      Ten fingers of doom, now used as much for Twitter as for his Gibson Byrdland.

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    2. Finny

      um ... and thanks for this one and all the others. Much Appreciated.

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    JDW

    Thank you Alec! I had to post this one in the comments several times today already

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    Old guy named Bill (OGNB)

    Thank you!

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    SusanC

    Thank you, Alec, for your well-researched fact checks.

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    Victor Clairmont

    Oh was happy to see this one. I had heard 3.7 mil was given to Wuhan, but it was the Eco Health Alliance that recurved the 3.7mil then sent 600k to the Wuhan Lab. I never really followed up on the information so glad this was cleared up.

    Nice fact check!

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