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Conservative Posts Misrepresent Royalty Payments to Fauci and Collins

Conservative Posts Misrepresent Royalty Payments to Fauci and Collins

Documents show that Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins received 58 royalty payments from 2010 to 2021 for their research. Only three of the payments came in 2020 or 2021; the rest were made prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. But social media posts falsely claimed all the payments were “for allowing companies to use their COVID-19 vaccines.”