The report specifically calls out Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert until leaving the government in 2022, saying that he pushed back on the lab leak theory and “prompted” a research report called “The Proximal Origin” that was used to discredit it.

A bombshell 520-page Congress report has revealed that COVID-19 did leak from a lab in Wuhan, China in the fall of 2019. Knewz.com can reveal that the Department of Justice secretly investigated a New York-based company for clues to track down the origin of the deadly illness that killed millions of people around the world.