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For 15 months, a House panel has linked Dr. Fauci to the start of the pandemic, but uncovered emails suggesting his aides were circumventing public records laws.
By Benjamin Mueller and Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the former government scientist celebrated and despised for his work on Covid, is expected to return to Capitol Hill on Monday for a meeting with some of his fiercest antagonists — members of a Republican-led House panel that accuses him of helping unleash the worst pandemic in a century.
Republicans on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic spent 15 months searching for evidence against Dr. Fauci in emails, Slack messages, and study proposals. In part — a million pages of documents and more than a hundred hours of closed-door testimony — the panel has uncovered nothing linking the 83-year-old immunologist to the early days of China’s Covid outbreak.
But the panel exposed emails suggesting that Dr. Fauci’s former assistants should evade public records legislation at the medical studies firm he ran for 38 years until his retirement in December 2022.
Some of those emails describe Dr. Fauci as involved in his public image; An April 2021 message from an aide said that while Dr. Fauci “prides himself on being like Teflon,” he’s “concerned about brown ingredients hitting the ventilator” because of questions about studies funded through his agency, the National Research Institute. and infectious diseases.
Over the years, the company has awarded scholarships to EcoHealth Alliance, a U. S. nonprofit that has partnered with foreign scientists, including some at a coronavirus lab in Wuhan, China, the city where the pandemic eventually began, as part of efforts to anticipate outbreaks. . .
Dr. Fauci’s appearance at a House panel hearing on Monday will be the first opportunity for lawmakers to talk to him about his agency’s recordkeeping practices. For Republicans on the committee, the hearing is also the culmination, so far, of a long crusade against American scientists and fitness officials who they say contributed to the outbreak of the Covid pandemic.
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