Former White House Chief Medical Advisor Anthony Fauci has agreed to testify before Congress on the US federal government's
response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the origin of the virus. Earlier, representatives of the Republican Party accused him of
misleading Congress.
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.
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.