News Analysis
New details have emerged about a teleconference convened by Dr. Anthony Fauci on Feb. 1, 2020, when he and a small group of scientists discussed the likelihood that the COVID-19 virus had leaked from a lab.
While the basic outlines of the teleconference became known last year when a batch of Fauci emails was released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), many crucial details were redacted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Those details were made public last week because of a successful FOIA lawsuit by independent journalist James Tobias.
It was known from the earlier Fauci email release that a group of scientists who receive funding from Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) believed that the virus might have leaked from a Chinese lab. One leading scientist, Kristian Andersen, had told Fauci in a Jan. 31, 2020, email that “some of the features (potentially) look engineered.”…