Read more about GOP sees opening to revive attacks on Dr Anthony Fauci in email trove on Business Standard. Dr Anthony Fauci has been a political lightning rod since the early days of the pandemic, lionised by the left
Shigeru Omi, the head of a government pandemic-response panel, responds to questions about the Tokyo Olympics at the Upper House Committee of Health, Labor and Welfare on June 3. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
One of the tasks of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is to provide expert advice to the White House, and director Anthony Fauci often clashed with President Donald Trump last year over COVID-19 response measures.
Trump s top priority was an early reopening of the economy, which Fauci reproved sternly as premature.
The frustrated president called him a disaster and even worse, but Fauci stood his ground, impressing me deeply with his professionalism.
At the time, the lab leak hypothesis was largely dismissed by experts. It has recently gained traction, though the origins of the virus remain unknown.
“The unusual features of the virus make up a really small part of the genome (0.1%) so one has to look really closely at all the sequences to see that some of the features (potentially) look engineered,” Andersen wrote. He said he and his colleagues “all find the genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory. But,” he added, “we have to look at this much more closely and there are still further analyses to be done, so those opinions could still change.”
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