President Biden on Friday said he’s “very confident” in his chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, despite the release of emails that exposed Fauci’s knowledge of and efforts to tamp down the Wuhan “lab leak” theory to explain the COVID-19 pandemic’s origin.
“Yes, I’m very confident in Dr. Fauci,” Biden told reporters as he departed Rehoboth Beach, Del., to return to the White House.
The longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is under fire after reporting this week on an email trove acquired by news outlets using the Freedom of Information Act.
The emails revealed Fauci’s communications with the director of the Chinese CDC and with the leader of a nonprofit that contracted with the Wuhan lab, and they also revealed that a prominent researcher informed him in January 2020 that they believed the virus genome had signs of lab manipulation.
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