Emails suggest Anthony Fauci took seriously the idea that the pandemic began with an engineered virus being leaked from a laboratoryUS congressmen have accused the scientist leading the country’s coronavirus response of potentially concealing his worries that the virus might have been genetically manipulated, after the release of emails dating from the start of the pandemic. James Comer and Jim Jordan, Republican members of an oversight committee, called for Anthony Fauci, then President Trump’s medical adviser, to answer questions about correspondence with geneticists from February 2020. The emails suggest he took the idea seriously that the pandemic began with an engineered virus being leaked from a laboratory. SponsoredThe emails, including some with British researchers, also show that after concluding the virus had not been manipulated, senior scientists tried to close down “conspiracy theories” about the pandemic’s origin. • The Covid-19 lab-leak theory: ‘I’ve had

Source: The Times January 13, 2022 02:43 UTC