President Biden's chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) were at each other's throats yet again, this time during a Tuesday Senate hearing in which the nation's top health officials testified regarding the government's response to the Omicron variant.
Speaking before the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee, Fauci accused Paul of "distorting everything about me" and "coming back to personal attacks on me that have absolutely no relevance," The Independent reports. Paul had asked Fauci about past conversations and communications he had with scientists regarding the origins of COVID-19, per C-SPAN.
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