Senate hearings blame China, not Fauci, for Covid-19 origin delays

A Senate committee recently held a hearing on the origins of Covid-19 and concluded that Dr. Anthony Fauci was in contempt of Congress after invoking his Fifth Amendment rights.

The author, a professor of epidemiology at Oxford, contends that the political focus on Fauci diverts attention from the larger issue of China's early response to the outbreak.

The piece claims Chinese officials suppressed information in the first weeks, delayed alerting the international community, and limited World Health Organization investigators, which it says cost other nations valuable preparation time.

It concludes that these actions, rather than any single individual's conduct, are the key factors behind the pandemic’s global spread.