STORY: :: Dr. Fauci says threats against him and his family

:: have included arrests of suspects 'on their way' to kill him

:: Dr. Anthony Fauci

:: Former Director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health

"Yes, there have been everything from harassments by emails, texts, letters to myself, my wife, my three daughters. There have been credible death threats leading to the arrests of two individuals. And credible death threats mean someone who clearly was on their way to kill me. And it's required my having protective services essentially all the time. It is very troublesome to me. It is much more troublesome because they've involved my wife and my three daughters."

:: Washington, D.C.

:: June 3, 2024

During the nearly four hour congressional hearing, Fauci pushed back against suggestions that he was involved in a coverup to prevent investigating a theory that the virus originated in a Chinese laboratory.