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Fauci pushes back partisan attacks in fiery House hearing over COVID origins and controversies

By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer
Published: June 3, 2024, 1:32pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert until leaving the government in 2022, was back before Congress on Monday, calling “simply preposterous” Republican allegations that he’d tried to cover up origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A GOP-led subcommittee has spent over a year probing the nation’s response to the pandemic and whether U.S.-funded

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