Fauci distances himself from NIH scandal ahead of House COVID hearing

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : In his opening statement published online ahead of a Monday hearing, Fauci said he "knew nothing" of the actions of David Morens, an agency senior adviser whose emails uncovered by the committee appear to show him trying to hide information from being disclosed under transparency laws.
49% : "[To] the best of my knowledge I have never conducted official business via my personal email," he wrote.Republicans on the subcommittee have spent the past year and a half searching through official records and emails, trying to find evidence linking Fauci to the origins of the virus and potentially dangerous viral research conducted in a lab in Wuhan, China.

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