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Dr. Anthony Fauci clashed with the Republican senator on Tuesday in a tense appearance before a Senate Health Committee.

"It's more than clear that Jesse Watters was using a metaphor for asking hard-hitting questions to Dr. Fauci about gain-of-function research," Fox News said.

Collins warned that the U.S. is in "for a world of trouble" in the coming months due to the omicron variant.

The reluctance of Dr. Fauci and other NIH officials to be forthcoming with information that could shed light on the origins of COVID-19 illustrates the old Watergate-era saw: The coverup is often worse than the crime.

"There were so many things that are egregious misrepresentation here," Fauci said of Paul's claims, "that I don't think I'd be able to refute all of them."

National Institutes of Health staff voiced concerns that proposed EcoHealth Alliance experiments on viruses could have made them more dangerous—known as "gain of function."

EcoHealth Alliance president Peter Daszak has defended the research group after the National Institutes of Health accused it of not immediately reporting engineered coronavirus study results.

More than 30 million people battle rare diseases in the U.S., according to estimates by the FDA.

The lab has come under fire for allegedly failing to immediately disclose data that showed increased coronavirus growth in mice.

At a moment when heightened scrutiny of the NIAID's actions is necessary, blue America seems unlikely to budge from its "Fauci, right or wrong" stand.

The lawmakers' letter highlighted reports of "costly, cruel, and unnecessary taxpayer-funded experiments on dogs."

The NIH demand's is the latest development in the controversy surrounding EcoHealth Alliance, the U.S. research group involved in coronavirus experiments.

Dr. Francis Collins' statements come just days after an FDA advisory committee declined a request from Pfizer to add a third booster shot to its two-dose regimen for those aged 16 and older.

Newly released grant proposals indicate the National Institutes of Health funded controversial gain of function research—appearing to contradict what Dr. Anthony Fauci told Congress earlier this year.

While everyone in Washington loves a good debate, we need less finger wagging and more facts.

"No need to mask at home," Dr. Francis Collins tweeted later on Tuesday. "Let me clarify the masking message that I garbled on @NewDay this morning.

Instead of the transparency Fauci called for in his 2012 article, we got a cover up, obfuscation and argument.

"I think anything we can do to encourage reluctant folks to get vaccinated...that's a good thing," NIH director Francis Collins said.

Navarro once again called the nation's leading infectious diseases expert the "godfather" of the COVID pandemic.

Funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology has been called into question as Republicans push for probe into lab as source of COVID-19 pandemic.

We don't know whether the pandemic started in a lab in Wuhan or evolved naturally. But we should want to know.

Bhattacharya said Fauci has changed his story so many times.

A transparent government that is accountable to the people is a fundamental principle of our democracy.

Biden administration health officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, are due to testify in the U.S. House of Representatives about vaccination efforts on Wednesday.

Vaccine critic Kennedy's accusations were debunked by NewsGuard, and Dr. Fauci called the allegation "absolutely, unequivocally and completely incorrect."

Overriding patents on drugs developed with the help of federally funded research, this so-called "march in" option, is not a good idea.

Of the more than 2 million people who have COVID vaccines, around a dozen have experienced allergic reactions.

The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases had the shot after Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar.

Dr. Francis Collins said a "cloud of uncertainty" has been cast over public confidence in a vaccine.

"This is not a planet that has much promise for the future if something that is so straightforward can somehow get twisted into decision-making that really makes no sense," NIH Director Francis Collins said Thursday. "As a scientist, I'm pretty puzzled and rather disheartened."