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On a Feb 1, 2020 call, Fauci and Collins were first warned COVID-19 might have leaked from a Wuhan lab — and might have been genetically manipulated.
Days after the call, Andersen privately wrote that the team's work was focused on trying to disprove a lab origin — contradicting later claims he weighed the evidence neutrally.
Collins emailed Fauci asking if NIH could do more to "put down" the lab-leak hypothesis; the next day Fauci cited Proximal Origin from the White House podium.
Farrar — uncredited on the paper — directly edited it, softening "unlikely" to "improbable" for a lab origin.
Co-author Lipkin privately conceded the draft did not rule out an inadvertent lab release in Wuhan — a doubt absent from the published paper.
Andersen told Nature the analysis was "prompted by" Fauci, Collins and Farrar — naming the officials whose influence was later publicly denied.
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