Rep. Ronny Jackson is gearing up another investigation of the origins of COVID-19 — and wants to bring Dr. Anthony Fauci and a US-based coronavirus researcher credited with working on the “blueprint” for SARS-CoV-2 back before Congress.
Jackson (R-Texas) spoke to The Post about his plans to investigate both COVID and reported cases of Havana syndrome among US diplomats days before the leak of a bombshell Defense Department report revealing that seven US military service members contracted COVID-19-like symptoms after participating in the World Military Games in October 2019 in Wuhan, China.
The brief report, which should have been released to Congress in December 2022 but was suppressed by the Biden administration and obtained this week by the Washington Free Beacon, could reset the timeline of the outbreak after the Wall Street Journal reported in 2021 that the virus was likely spreading around the Chinese city in November 2019 before going on to kill more than 1 million Americans.
Jackson, 57, a former White House physician, said he plans on calling back Fauci — after the former chief White House medical adviser sat last year for a transcribed interview and hearing before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic — and “absolutely” wants to speak with Dr. Ralph Baric, who also had a transcribed interview with the COVID panel.