The Fauci hearing was painful to watch. But we need answers on Covid-19’s origin| David Relman
Despite the recent hearings in Congress, we seem to be even further from the goal of understanding Covid-19’s origin’s than we have ever been As a microbiologist and infectious disease clinician, it has been tough to watch the recent devolution of public discourse on Covid-19 origins. It has been especially difficult for me to read the comments of Anthony Fauci about the origins debate in his…
The recent congressional hearings on the origins of Covid-19 have left many feeling disheartened, as the quest for answers appears to have taken a more convoluted path than ever before. A microbiologist and infectious disease specialist, David Relman, finds himself particularly dismayed by the recent behavior of Anthony Fauci in his public diary and the heated interrogation of Fauci by Senator Rand Paul on July 29th.
Despite initial appeals for an unbiased examination of the current state of knowledge about Covid-19's origins, it seems that the situation has only worsened, marred by political influences, division, and illogical reasoning. Relman, a professor of medicine and microbiology at Stanford University, was a founding member of the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity and once served as the president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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