Doug Lamborn Spreads COVID Conspiracies, Refuses to Recommend Vaccine

In a radio interview last Thursday, Colorado Congressman Doug Lamborn pushed an unfounded conspiracy theory as to the origin of the COVID-19 virus, falsely accused Democrats and the top U.S. infectious disease expert of complicity in obstructing investigations, and misrepresented international virological research.

In the same interview, Lamborn disclosed his vaccination status and COVID medical history, while dodging a question as to whether he would recommend his constituents get vaccinated.

Lamborn told KVOR host Richard Randall that he blames the Chinese Communist Party for the lack of transparency in efforts to determine the origin of the coronavirus contagion which caused the COVID pandemic, and he expressed his suspicion that the virus leaked from a laboratory conducting experiments into the virus for the purpose of developing biological weapons.

“Everything points — I don’t know totally for sure, Richard, but I’m so suspicious, based on the evidence, that it did start there at the Wuhan virology lab,” Lamborn opined. “If China played a role through gain of function research, which only has one purpose, and that’s to weaponize biological viruses as far as I know, then they have a lot to answer for to the entire world. And I don’t know why the Democrats in Congress, I don’t know why Dr. Fauci, I don’t know why they don’t want to get to the bottom of it.”

Contrary to Lamborn’s claim, ‘gain of function’ experiments are not for weaponizing viruses. The term ‘gain of function’ generally refers to manipulating a virus to increase its transmissibility or virulence in order to better understand the its behavior and the threat it poses to humans. Those types of experiments have been challenged ethically, and Fauci has maintained that Wuhan lab experiments funded by the National Institute of Health were not categorized as such.

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