Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said that a Republican in the House would investigate allegations that White House COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci was involved in trying to shut down narratives about the virus possibly leaking from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
In January of this year, Republican lawmakers disclosed a conference call that included Fauci, former National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, and other scientists who consulted with the federal government in which they discussed the origins of COVID-19.
“It was on this conference call that Drs. Fauci and Collins were first warned that COVID-19 may have leaked from the [Wuhan lab] and, further, may have been intentionally genetically manipulated,” the Republicans’ letter said at the time, adding: “It is unclear if either Dr. Fauci or Dr. Collins ever passed these warnings along to other government officials or if they simply ignored them.”…