{
  "id": 1015688,
  "title": "The Fauci hearing was painful to watch. But we need answers on Covid-19’s origin| David Relman",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/15/the-fauci-hearing-was-painful-to-watch-but-we-need-answers-on-covid-1015688",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-15T10:00:53.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Science",
    "slug": "guardian-science",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/15/covid-19-origins"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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…",
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        "title": "The Fauci hearing was painful to watch. But we need answers on Covid-19’s origin| David Relman",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/15/the-fauci-hearing-was-painful-to-watch-but-we-need-answers-on-covid",
        "published": "2026-08-15T10:00:53.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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