Fauci yet again dismisses conspiracy theory that the coronavirus was made in a Wuhan lab after Pompeo touted 'enormous evidence' of a cover up

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• Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that there was no evidence to suggest that the novel coronavirus was manufactured in a laboratory. 
• Conspiracy theorists have, without evidence, linked the outbreak to a research institute in Wuhan and have suggested that the virus was developed there and accidentally released onto the public. 
• On Sunday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed there was "enormous evidence" that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese lab.
• But in an interview published in National Geographic on Monday, Fauci said that scientific evidence is "very, very strongly leaning toward" the conclusion that the virus originated in nature and jumped from animals to humans. 
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Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease expert and a front-facing member of the White House coronavirus task force, said that there was no evidence that the new coronavirus was made in a Wuhan lab. 

In an interview published in National Geographic on Monday, Fauci said that scientific evidence is "very, very strongly leaning toward" the conclusion that the virus originated in nature and jumped from animals to humans. 

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