Today a special house subcommittee looking into the origins of the COVID-19

pandemic pressed the man who helped lead the nation's response. Dr Anthony

Fauchy, the former head of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Disease.

William Bringham looks at some of the key criticisms leveled at Fauchy's leadership

during the pandemic and how he responded today.

Thank you for this opportunity to testify. and how he responded today.

Thank you for this opportunity to testify.

The man who was the face of America's COVID response,

Dr Anthony Fauchy, returned to Capitol Hill today

to publicly answer a barrage of accusations. returned to

publicly answer a barrage of accusations.

First, that he used his influence

as the head of one of the American government's biggest grant-giving

organizations to dictate what researchers said publicly

about how the pandemic began. About whether it jumped into humans from a wild

animal being sold at a Chinese food market in Wuhan, or whether it came

from an accidental leak out of the Chinese-run Wu-Huhan Institute of Virology, which was researching coronaviruses.

The accusation being circulated that I influenced these scientists to change their minds by

bribing them with millions of dollars in grant money is

absolutely false and simply preposterous.

Fauchy also faced questions about whether NIAIDs passed grants to a virus researcher named Peter

Dassac, who's president of the EcoHealth Alliance, was supporting research in China about how to make coronaviruses more contagious and virulent.

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