US Senate's Fauci hearing renews COVID origin debate but reveals little - Al Jazeera

Theory Briefing

• Fauci's Senate hearing was framed by Republicans as exposing a cover-up, yet the session surfaced no new facts about COVID's origins.
• Supporters argued Fauci rejected lab-leak claims on scientific grounds, not to suppress them — the same evidence read in opposite directions by each side.
• The hearing shows how the same absence of a definitive answer keeps both natural-spillover and lab-leak theories alive and politically useful.
• Senate theatrics aside, the core question — where COVID-19 actually came from — remains officially unresolved.