Fauci Invokes Fifth Amendment in Senate Hearing on COVID 19 Research Funding Dr.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), was at the center of a contentious Senate hearing on Tuesday.
Senator Rand Paul (R KY) questioned Fauci about NIAID's funding of research on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, China, prompting Fauci to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights.