Fauci deflects partisan attacks in fiery House hearing over COVID

WASHINGTON - Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert until leaving the government in 2022, was back before Congress on Monday, calling Republican allegations that he'd tried to cover up origins of the COVID-19 pandemic "simply preposterous."

A GOP-led subcommittee has spent over a year probing the nation's response to the pandemic and whether U.S.-funded research in China may have played any rol