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Covid: White House defends Dr Fauci over lab leak emails
Source: BBC
Covid: White House defends Dr Fauci over lab leak emails
4 June 2021
The White House has defended the president's top coronavirus adviser, Dr Anthony Fauci, amid scrutiny of his recently released work emails.
Dr Fauci has been the face of the nation's Covid-19 response, drawing both praise and criticism.
And press secretary Jen Psaki said Dr Fauci had been an "undeniable asset".
But emails have raised questions on whether he backed Chinese denials of the theory that Covid-19 leaked from a lab in Wuhan.
A trove of Dr Fauci's emails covering the onset of the coronavirus outbreak were released this week to media under a freedom of information request.
In one email sent last April, an executive at a health charity thanked Dr Fauci for publicly stating that scientific evidence does not support the lab-leak theory.
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4 June 2021
The White House has defended the president's top coronavirus adviser, Dr Anthony Fauci, amid scrutiny of his recently released work emails.
Dr Fauci has been the face of the nation's Covid-19 response, drawing both praise and criticism.
And press secretary Jen Psaki said Dr Fauci had been an "undeniable asset".
But emails have raised questions on whether he backed Chinese denials of the theory that Covid-19 leaked from a lab in Wuhan.
A trove of Dr Fauci's emails covering the onset of the coronavirus outbreak were released this week to media under a freedom of information request.
In one email sent last April, an executive at a health charity thanked Dr Fauci for publicly stating that scientific evidence does not support the lab-leak theory.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57352992
