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Fauci Answers on Lab-Leak Emails, Sorta

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., March 18, 2021.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci was asked this morning on CNN about the redacted emails sent to him last year that mentioned the possibility of COVID-19 having leaked from a lab or being the product of human intervention, such as through gain-of-function research.

This is a very slippery response. Itโ€™s not entirely his fault, as the questioning sort of leads him to say this, but by the end, Fauciโ€™s response conflates three theories of COVIDโ€™s origins that could have overlap, but in the current debate mostly donโ€™t. Letโ€™s clarify the different theories.

Michael Brendan Dougherty

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Michael Brendan Dougherty is a senior writer at National Review Online.

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