francis collins to dr. fauci in april 16th of 2020 and the subject line reads conspiracy gains momentum referring to tha lab leak hypothesis. this is from collins, wondering if there something nih can do t help with this very destructive conspiracy down, but what seems to be growing momentum. at hope the nature medicus an article the genomic sequence would settle this freight fauci responded francis, i would not do anything about this right now , it s is a shiny object that will go away in time. congressman, that was a bad bet it doesn t go away, but the mos significant question you posed in your e-mail is, did they alert anyone in the white house or hhs about this lab leak theory, and if not, all of thes people suggested it on february 1st, why did they not? he get that is the million-dollar question, why didn t they do that freight