
Retired U.S. infectious disease top expert Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared before a Republican-led House panel hearing Monday to deny accusations of suppressing the theory that COVID-19 originated from a lab leak in China.
Addressing a U.S. House of Representatives panel publicly for the first time since a lengthy private hearing in January, the former White House chief medical adviser said that he never influenced research regarding the virus's origins, calling the accusations "absolutely false and simply preposterous."