Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment in heated COVID-19 Senate hearing

Dr. Anthony Fauci, longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, invoked his Fifth Amendment right during a Senate hearing on COVID-19 on Wednesday, per Al Jazeera English. The hearing turned heated as Republicans, including Senator Rand Paul, pressed him on claims he covered up the pandemic's origins, and Fauci declined to answer their questions.

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