Fauci is defiant as congressional hearing into covid origins fails to produce smoking gun

Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who became the face of the US government’s covid response under two presidents, pushed back against Republican allegations that US research dollars had helped to trigger the pandemic.Accused by Republicans at a congressional hearing on 3 June of having suppressed inquiry into covid-19’s origins, Fauci read out an email he wrote in February 2020 to a scientist who believed the virus might have leaked from a laboratory, urging him to quickly report his concerns to the FBI if he determined that they were valid.“It is inconceivable that anyone who reads this email could conclude that I was trying to cover up the possibility of a laboratory leak,” said Fauci.It was Fauci’s first public appearance before a congressional committee since Republicans took the House majority.At the hearing, Fauci was confronted with emails that Republicans obtained from a…
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