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Anthony Fauci’s diaries take aim at News Corp journalist Sharri Markson’s ‘nonsense’ Covid-19 investigation

Anthony Fauci’s diaries take aim at News Corp journalist Sharri Markson’s ‘nonsense’ Covid-19 investigation

Summary

Dr. Anthony Fauci criticized a book by journalist Sharri Markson that supports the theory Covid-19 started from a lab leak, calling it nonsense in his recently released diaries. Fauci and Senator Rand Paul appeared at a Senate hearing about the pandemic, where Fauci refused to answer questions and denied claims linking him to controversial research funding.

Key Facts

  • Dr. Anthony Fauci was the chief medical adviser in the US at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
  • Fauci described Sharri Markson’s book supporting the lab leak theory as “a bunch of nonsense.”
  • Senator Rand Paul subpoenaed Fauci to appear at a Senate hearing on Covid-19 and Fauci’s handling of the pandemic.
  • Fauci refused to answer questions at the hearing and called Paul’s campaign against him “unhinged.”
  • Markson’s book claims China’s Wuhan lab conducted dangerous coronavirus research, but Fauci disputed these claims in his diary.
  • The report that Chinese military scientists planned to use coronaviruses as weapons was based on a discredited and conspiracy-filled source.
  • The origins of Covid-19 are still debated, with two main theories: natural animal origin or lab leak.
  • Markson said intelligence agencies now mostly support the lab leak theory and accused Fauci’s agency of secretly funding risky Wuhan lab research.
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