Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky clashed again with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government's top infectious diseases expert, at a congressional hearing on Tuesday on the origins of the coronavirus pandemic that has taken almost 600,000 lives in the United States.
The argument underscored the contentiousness still swirling around what is still not known about the disease, as well as how best to fight against it as the country looks to recover socially and economically from more than a year of crisis.
Theories have circulated throughout the pandemic about whether COVID-19 sprouted in a lab and was accidentally or purposefully released.
In late April, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a statement reading: "The entire Intelligence Community has been consistently providing critical support to U.S. policymakers and those responding to the COVID-19 virus, which originated in China. The Intelligence Community also concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not manmade or genetically modified."
The statement added: "The IC will continue to rigorously examine emerging information and intelligence to determine whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan."
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