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Dr Fauci ‘should be sacked’ for flip-flopping on Wuhan Covid lab leak theory as Trump fumes ‘I was right from the start’
DR Anthony Fauci should be fired for initially dismissing the Covid-19 Wuhan "lab leak" theory touted by Donald Trump, according to GOP lawmakers.
has since said he's not "convinced" the virus developed naturally, after insisting last year that the killer virus was created in the Chinese laboratory.
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Some Republicans are now calling for Fauci to be dismissed as Biden's top chief.
Rep Warren Davidson, of Ohio, told : "Dr. Fauci is at odds with the Centers for Disease Control. He has repeatedly put political science ahead of the science on Covid-19."
congressman Guy Reschenthaler said Fauci has been "inconsistent" throughout the pandemic, claiming he "has been wrong, intentionally deceptive, and inconsistent throughout this pandemic.”
Fauci admitted that he is "not convinced" that the deadly bug developed naturally - a year after telling Covid-19 was naturally occurring and has not been “deliberately manipulated.”
A report alleged three Wuhan staffers before the Covid outbreak was disclosed to the world.
The report led to renewed calls for a broader probe into whether Covid-19 could have escaped from a lab in Wuhan, where the pandemic is widely believed to have begun.
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Former president said he is all but certain that Covid originated from a lab in China
He told Dan Bongino on Monday: “I think you can take the word ‘potential’ out of that it came from the lab.”
Bongino and Trump discussed the lab-leak theory - something which he often mentioned on the 2020 campaign trail.
The former president's comments bring a renewed interest in the theory - months after it was previously as a conspiracy.
In March, a World Health Organization (WHO) scientist investigating the origins of the pandemic said the ".
Peter Ben Embarek, who led the WHO team in their Wuhan investigation, said they failed to get "hard facts or detailed data" from the lab.
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The Wuhan Institute of Virology is known to have been experimenting with bat coronaviruses and creating infectious hybrid strains for tests.
It is located just a stone's throw from where the virus first emerged in December 2019.
China and the lab have always denied allegations of a possible leak.
Donald Trump says it was 'obvious' Coronavirus came from a Wuhan lab
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