Dr. Anthony Fauci is the United States' top expert on infectious disease.<br />He's played a critical role in the Trump administration's response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.<br />At the White House on Friday, Fauci rejected a conspiracy theory that the novel coronavirus was created in a Chinese lab.<br />He said the available evidence on the origins of the virus is "totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human."<br />We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible. Dr. Anthony Fauci<br />Fox News and Republican allies of President Donald Trump have been pushing the lab narrative in recent days.<br />According to Business Insider, a lack of hard evidence has not stopped them from doing so.
