Fauci briefed world leaders on the possibility the virus came from a Wuhan lab last spring
Pushing back against accusations from Republicans that Dr. Anthony Fauci initially downplayed questions over the origins of Covid-19, former Food and Drug Administration head Scott Gottlieb said Sunday that .... [+]Gottlieb, who headed the FDA from 2017 to 2019 under former President Donald Trump, said during an appearance on CBS’that he was informed of the briefing by senior Trump officials and has since “reconfirmed that conversation.
“I was told at the time back in the spring that Dr. Fauci had gone over to a meeting with world health leaders in Europe around the World Health Assembly,” Gottlieb said. At this meeting, Fauci briefed world health leaders on the information U.S. officials were looking at, including “that this could have been a potential lab leak, that this strain looked unusual,” the ex-FDA chief said.
“So those discussions were going on,” Gottlieb said, explaining they began to subside as closer analysis “dispelled some of those suspicions.” The Sunday revelation from Gottlieb follows attacks from Republicans who have seized on a newly released trove of Dr. Fauci’s emails to accuse him of dismissing the lab leak theory last year. In the emails, made public after the
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