Fauci is chock full of crap.
Without Fauxxi and his "gain of function" there would be no covid virus (!),
nor would there be any variant !
Fauxxi, through his clandestine cohort at Eco Health, Peter Daszak, chose to fund the Wuhan research using U.S. tax payers monies.
Obama directed research in the U.S. to end, and then 13 days before leaving office, Obama chose to administratively fund the program again.
Why ?
Trump ordered such funding to end/terminate, but Fauxxi chose to fund research thru Daszak and Eco Health, while intentionally circumventing any U.S. regulatory supervision.
To suggest that this was unintentional is to defy logic (!) and the Presidential directives deny justification.
Therefore, Fauxxi, Daszak, and Chinese government/military apparatus own this virus.