The former White House chief medical adviser has agreed to to testify before Congress on the US response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the origin of the virus in China. This is reported by UNN with with reference to the Wall Street Journal.
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Fauci's testimony, who headed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 until 2022, will be his first testimony before the House of Representatives. The special subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic requested a meeting with Dr. Fauci in February of this year. Fauci in February of this year, but an agreement on the time and details of the interview was was only reached with Fauci's lawyers earlier this month, according to a letter sent Thursday from the committee.
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Republicans accused Fauci of lying to Congress when he denied in May 2022 that the National Institute of Well-Being had funded an analysis of "achieving outcome" analysis - watching the virus grow stronger in the lab to to test its potential impact in the real world - at a virology laboratory in Wuhan. Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, even called for to appoint a specific prosecutor to investigate Fauci's claims.
Also, Republicans on the committee last year issued a report claiming that there are "indications" that the virus may have been developed as a biological weapon at the weapon at China's Institute of Virology in Wuhan.
The time has come for Dr. Fauci to face the facts and resolve the many contradictions that have emerged during and after the pandemic,
Many scientists, including including Fauci, who served as Biden's chief medical adviser until December, believe that the virus most likely originated in nature and passed from animals to humans. Virus researchers have not publicly identified scientific evidence that could support the the laboratory leak hypothesis more likely.
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