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Republicans have slammed Dr Anthony Fauci for ‘lying’ about the origins of COVID after an Energy Department report found it was most likely from a Wuhan lab leak. Lawmakers tore into the former chief medical adviser after he repeatedly shot down the claim during and after the pandemic.
But the 82-year-old broke his silence on Monday and again urged caution in believing the report, saying Americans need to keep an ‘open mind to all possibilities’.
The Wall Street Journal report revealed this weekend that the US Energy Department now believes the virus that took over the world in 2020 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), in China.
Fauci told the Boston Globe on Monday: ‘We must all keep an open mind to all possibilities’ about the origins of the coronavirus, but added that ‘we may never know. I don’t see any data for a lab leak,’ Fauci said in the interview. ‘That doesn’t mean it couldn’t have happened.’