On Thursday, the Senate Homeland Security Committee voted to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress over his repeated invocation of the Fifth Amendment. The committee’s chair, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has not been shy about his scorn toward Fauci, who led the pandemic response in the first Trump and Biden administrations. Paul floated conspiracy theories that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID, was leaked from a Chinese lab and that Fauci covered up this info. Related Ebola and hantavirus reveal US as a major threat to global healthSeemingly at the advice of his lawyers, Fauci declined to entertain this political side show. The virus that sparked a global pandemic still regularly infects, disables and kills hundreds of people per week.