Fauci shut down lab leak theory despite scientists lending it credence, emails show | Washington Examiner

[The emails] reveal that Dr. Fauci was warned of two things: (1) the potential that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute Virology (WIV) and (2) the possibility that the virus was intentionally genetically manipulated, the lawmakers said.

Republicans said the Department of Health and Human Services made the unredacted versions of the emails available only behind closed doors, and so, committee staff hand-copied them. The emails appear to show that although Collins, the now-former head of the National Institutes of Health, and Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, worked behind the scenes to cast doubt on the lab leak possibility, they had good reason to believe it was plausible.

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“[T]he possibility that the virus was intentionally genetically manipulated . . ” Those darn virologists.