- Republicans on the House Coronavirus Pandemic Select Subcommittee on Sunday said there is evidence that suggests Dr. Anthony Fauci “prompted” the drafting of paper to “disprove” the theory that the COVID-19 virus originated in a lab leak.
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Fauci, then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, reportedly pushed against the lab leak theory despite learning in February 2020 that COVID-19 may have originated in a lab leak in Wuhan, China, and it may have been purposely genetically manipulated, the House subcommittee also found.
