Anthony Fauci, who was US President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser until December 2022, testified before a panel exploring the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic on 3 June.Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Anthony Fauci, the former head of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), emphatically fended off allegations at a Republican-led hearing in Washington DC today that his agency funded research that created the COVID-19 pandemic or that he coordinated a cover-up of the pandemic's origins, calling the claims 'simply preposterous'. The 3 June session was one of the most anticipated hearings hosted by the US House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. The subcommittee has held 27 hearings or briefings over the past 15 months to examine the federal government's response to the pandemic and to uncover the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. As has been the case in most of the hearings, Fauci's questioning reflected a deep...
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