Fauci Was Told Privately by Key Scientists That COVID-19 Natural Origin Was ‘Highly Unlikely,’ Newly Unredacted Emails Confirm

Fauci Was Told Privately by Key Scientists That COVID-19 Natural Origin Was ‘Highly Unlikely,’ Newly Unredacted Emails Confirm
Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House Chief Medical Advisor and Director of the NIAID, waits for Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Jan. 11, 2022. Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images
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Top U.S. health officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, scrambled in early 2020 to respond to public reporting of a potential connection between COVID-19 and the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.