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Post-Fauci, NIAID Still Rejects That COVID Originated With Lab Leak

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies during the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for the fiscal year 2023 for the National Institutes of Health on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (Shawn Thew/Pool Photo via AP)
  • It’s been several weeks since the FBI asserted that the lab-leak theory is the most likely explanation for COVID-19’s emergence, yet the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases still maintains that anyone who questions the natural-origin theory is rejecting science.
  • The National Institutes of Health component, led by Anthony Fauci for four decades, has not updated its page on COVID’s origins since its creation 17 months ago.
  • The NIAID page was devised in response to questions about NIH’s possible role in COVID’s emergence through EcoHealth Alliance grants that funded Wuhan Institute of Virology research, and was last reviewed Oct. 20, 2021.
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