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Amid evidence that the U.S. government funded research that made coronaviruses transmissible among humans and more lethal, federal health officials, including White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, have pushed the theory that the pandemic had a natural origin, “spilling over” from animals.
Fauci, in fact, according to emails, was part of an effort that began early in the pandemic to dismiss proponents of the lab-leak theory as conspiracy theorists.
But an interim report released Thursday of a Senate investigation has concluded there is “substantial” evidence the virus that causes COVID-19 leaked from a lab in China.
Republicans on the Senate Committee on Health Senate Committee on Health Education, Labor and Pensions reviewed hundreds of studies regarding the origins of COVID and interviewed several dozen experts.
“Nearly three years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, critical evidence that would prove that the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 and resulting COVID-19 pandemic was caused by a natural zoonotic spillover is missing,” the report said.
