Fetterman to Fauci: I Regret Dismissing The Lab Leak Theory As A “Right-Wing” Idea
At a Senate hearing featuring Dr. Anthony Fauci, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) says one of his biggest regrets from the COVID pandemic was viewing the lab leak theory through a political lens rather than following the evidence. Fetterman said the next time the country faces a national health crisis, he hopes leaders pursue the truth without partisan blinders.
SEN. JOHN FETTERMAN (D-PA): Dr. Fauci, I’m not here to perhaps attack you or defend or anything. It’s really just just more honestly. I’m just want to acknowledge I have had members of my family die from COVID and now I also grieve for people that I’ve met that have lost their business through the pandemic and they’ll never been the same. Now, as during the pandemic, I was the lieutenant governor, so we were in the middle of all of that maelstrom trying to find the right balance between protect life and protect the economics and for all of it. And I’m not sure if we got it all right or wrong, but without a doubt, I can continue to question myself. But one that I it’s not about much more your regrets, but I have one. And that is early on that there was the theory that the virus could have emerged from the lab. And early on that became like a right wing kinds of theory. And I thought it seemed to make sense. Now there was a really advanced lab that was close by and then you have this unknown virus out. So, but that became a very partisan thing. And now it seems now it’s more and more emerging theory that that would have come from from the lab. Now, you know, I hope I think that the next time our nation’s facing something like this, we are not become, you know, as I might have been blinded by the partisan idea that maybe the truth might come from a side that’s different than than you are. But I think we should really be willing to pursue truth no matter where that may have emerged, you know, after for all of that. So, and I now see the the remain back to the chair. Thank you.
