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John Berman.
As Berman spoke to Fauci about international efforts to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, the CNN host shifted gears to note that Buzzfeed has released thousands of pages from Fauci’s emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. Berman began by focusing on an email where Fauci was thanked by the head of EcoHealth Alliance for his assessment that the coronavirus emerged naturally as opposed to being released from a laboratory.
EcoHealth Alliance has been under the public microscope in recent days due to questions about their collaborations with the Wuhan Institute of Virology after receiving grant funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. As such, Berman asked Fauci for his response to critics who say he is “too cozy of a relationship with the people behind the Wuhan lab research.”
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