Anthony Fauci refuses to answer questions during US Senate hearing about Covid origins

The anthony story

The former top US health official said he feared Republicans could try to trip him up and use his testimony to prosecute him for perjury

Why anthony matters

This development in anthony, fauci, refuses, answer, questions matters because it alters the baseline assumptions that BBC and others have been working from.

What led here

What precedes anthony fauci refuses to answer questions during us senate hearing about covid origins, according to BBC, is a sequence of decisions that narrowed the range of possible outcomes.

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The editorial angle

Signal Ledger reads this through the lens of anthony, fauci, refuses, answer, questions: The former top US health official said he feared Republicans could try to trip him up and use his testimony to prosecute him for perjury.