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Health officials tried to hide the truth about the pandemic’s origin. The sordid story is still leaking out.
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The Covid scandals just keep coming. Over the past two weeks, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee chaired by Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has released thousands of pages of documents related to Anthony Fauci’s handling of the Covid crisis. The documents, which include Dr. Fauci’s diary entries from that period and Slack exchanges among his ad hoc team of scientific advisers, add juicy new details to what anyone paying attention already knew: As head of the U.S. government’s lead pandemic-response agency, Dr. Fauci kept an iron grip on information about the virus, suppressed questions about its likely origin in a Wuhan lab and bullied scientists to shut up and fall in line.
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James B. Meigs is a senior fellow of the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. He is the former editor of Popular Mechanics, where he helped reposition that century-old brand to become a major voice on technological issues.