China denounced comments made by FBI Director Christopher Wray that a leak from a lab in Wuhan likely caused the COVID pandemic, a claim China said had no credibility whatsoever.
The COVID lab leak theory is the latest example of journalists dismissing an inconvenient narrative as "debunked" before the facts come in, analysts say.
Republican lawmakers slammed Dr. Fauci after a bombshell Energy Department report said that COVID-19 likely leaked from a lab in China, an idea he previously rejected.
The White House said there is no consensus within the government on the origins of COVID-19, after an explosive Energy Department report pointed to a Wuhan lab as the possible origin.