Dr. Anthony Fauci emerges from home, keeps quiet after latest COVID lab leak report

What’s up, doc?

Former White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci emerged from his home Monday, one day after a bombshell report revealed that the Energy Department has concluded that COVID-19 likely leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China.

Fauci, who retired after more than five decades as a federal employee at the end of 2022, didn’t make any comments about the revised assessment by the Department of Energy, which reportedly was included in a recent intelligence report sent to the White House and top-ranking members of Congress.

Dr. Anthony Fauci outside of his home a day after a Department of Energy report concluded that COVID-19 likely leaked from a lab in China.
Julia Nikhinson – CNP

Fauci did not comment on the DOE report about the origins of COVID.
Fauci did not comment on the DOE report about the origins of COVID.
Julia Nikhinson – CNP

The 82-year-old has repeatedly dismissed the so-called “lab leak” theory — insisting that evidence shows that the virus passed naturally from animals to humans.

Republicans have argued that Fauci has rejected the theory to cover up his former agency’s involvement in funding so-called “gain-of-function” research, in which scientists make viruses more transmissible and harmful.

The Biden administration defended Fauci Monday, with press secretary Karine-Jean-Pierre saying the attacks by Republicans “have been counterproductive, they have not been helpful.”

Fauci previously dismissed the lab leak theory about COVID-19.
Fauci previously dismissed the lab leak theory about COVID-19.
Photo by JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images

The Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan where some have theorized COVID-19 was originated.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan where some have theorized COVID-19 was originated.
AFP via Getty Images


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Fauci has claimed COVID-19 most likely emerged from an animal.
Fauci has claimed COVID-19 most likely emerged from an animal.
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History via AP, File

Republicans have claimed Fauci only rejected the lab leak theory to cover up "gain-of-function" research funded by his department.
Republicans have claimed Fauci only rejected the lab leak theory to cover up “gain-of-function” research funded by his department.
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