Commentary “I think there’s no doubt that we are and have been undercounting,” the number of COVID-19 deaths, Dr. Anthony Fauci told reporters on May 9. On the other hand, when it comes to the origin of the pandemic, Fauci harbors plenty of doubts and uncertainties. “What is your opinion on how COVID became so well adapted to humans?” Margaret Brennan of CBS News asked Fauci, on March 28. “You know, Margaret, that’s an argument that goes back and forth,” said Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984. “A very plausible explanation for this is that this virus jumped from an animal host, a bat to maybe an intermediate host and then to a human.” The “other theory” is that the virus “accidentally escaped” from “a lab.” As Fauci concluded, “I think the most likely one that in nature, in the wild, it …