Dr. Anthony Fauci refuted allegations his former colleague, Dr. Robert Redfield, made during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday after Redfield said he was excluded from a conference call in early 2020 to discuss the origins of COVID-19 because he suspected the virus was the result of a lab leak.
Redfield, who served as the director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Wednesday.
During his testimony, Redfield said he was not included in a conference call with other scientists including Fauci, who formerly served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and oversaw much of the U.S. response to COVID-19. The conference call Redfield described was organized by Jeremy Farrar, director of the British charity Wellcome Trust in February 2020….