People (rightfully) like to hate on Fauci, but Birx is far more the mastermind. Remember, she was the Global AIDS coordinator at the time COVID "broke out"
We now know Dr. Fauci had deep ties to the intelligence community that predate the COVID pandemic. Think about what that means. When the question of whether this virus came from a lab first arose, one man was positioned to shape the answer across science, intelligence, and public opinion.
He steered the narrative away from the lab leak theory because he knew the NIH was funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.