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