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US Senate’s Fauci hearing renews COVID origin debate but reveals little

Hearing underscores years-long partisan divide on lightning-rod issue fuelled by misleading White House claims.

Al Jazeera Jul 31, 2026, 10:10 PM Captured Jul 31, 2026, 10:52 PM

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Washington, DC – A Senate committee hearing this week has once again shone a spotlight on the political divisions over the United States government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Wednesday’s hearing, held by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, continued years of criticism, mainly from Republicans, against immunologist Anthony Fauci, who led the government’s response to the pandemic.

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The site highlighted several claims that experts say pave over the nuanced scientific debate about the origins of the virus.

The claim is attributed to a broad or unnamed group, making the evidence harder to evaluate.

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Still, a preponderance of experts say evidence indicates that the virus was most likely transferred from an animal, likely a bat, to humans, in a process called zoonotic spillover.

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Stephen Morrison, the director of the Global Health Policy Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the hearing was a reflection of the deep, enduring partisan divides over the issue.

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