Democrats, Fauci Try to Find Distance from Covid Origins Probe

June 3, 2024, 8:56 PM UTC

House Democrats drew a line around former White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci Monday, trying to separate him from the congressional investigation into the origins of Covid-19.

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic has spent a year probing Covid’s origins and circling toward Monday’s hearing with Fauci, who retired as a top National Institutes of Health official in 2022.

Republican leaders on the committee say Fauci, as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, didn’t properly oversee federal funds going to support virology research and may have been party to efforts to skirt federal ...

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