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Natalie Winters@nataliegwinters · Aug 14, 2026

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Fauci joined a foreign government-backed pandemic center just three months after leaving office.…

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Anthony Fauci joined an Italian government-backed pandemic research center three months after leaving the NIH, and his former agency subsequently awarded $44 million to a vaccine program co-led by the center's scientific director, raising questions about potential conflicts of interest in pandemic research funding.

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    🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Fauci joined a foreign government-backed pandemic center just three months after leaving office. Then his former agency awarded $44 MILLION to a vaccine program co-led by the center’s scientific director. I uncovered the receipts. 🧵

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    1/ Fauci left NIAID in December 2022 after 38 years overseeing billions in infectious-disease funding. By March 2023, he had agreed to advise Italy’s newly created Fondazione Biotecnopolo di Siena—an institute backed by four Italian government ministries.

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    2/ The institute’s mission? Vaccines, therapeutics and preparation for future pandemics. Its anti-pandemic center was allocated up to €340 million through 2026. And its scientific director, Rino Rappuoli, was Fauci’s longtime collaborator.

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    3/ Announcing Fauci’s role, Rappuoli declared: “I have known and worked with Anthony Fauci for years.” He said their scientific partnership would continue—and named the NIH as one of the new center’s intended partners. Then came the NIAID money.

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    4/ That same month, Fauci’s former agency launched ReVAMPP: a massive program developing vaccines and monoclonal antibodies against viruses with pandemic potential. NIAID later said it expected to fund the network at roughly $100 MILLION annually.

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    5/ One of the largest awards—$44,108,652—went to a program co-led by Rappuoli. University records identify him as a principal investigator and co-director of the NIAID-funded project. They also identify him as scientific director of Fauci’s Italian center.

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    6/ The program targets viruses including mumps, Oropouche, Rift Valley fever, Toscana virus and others. And Biotecnopolo di Siena—the foreign government-backed institute Fauci joined—is listed as an official participating institution.

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    7/ Now, obscure Italian procurement records provide the clearest receipt yet. In July 2025, Fauci’s Italian center purchased laboratory reagents and consumables under a project explicitly labeled: “NIH_ReVAMPP.” The official responsible? Rino Rappuoli.

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    8/ Other procurement notices identify laboratory and research purchases as: “NIH (PO ST00026798).” In other words, the institute’s own records show NIH-funded pandemic research operating inside the organization Fauci agreed to advise after leaving government.

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    9/ This is the pandemic-industrial complex’s revolving door in plain sight. Full investigation and documents: nataliegwinters.substack.com/p/exclusive-fa…