EYECARE: Coronavirus BRIEFING: Crisis Response Tactics Hopkins' Makary Tells Lawmakers COVID Lab Leak a 'No-Brainer' By Staff Sunday, March 5, 2023 6:06 AM Did the pandemic start with a lab leak? Is natural immunity protective? Should healthy children be vaccinated against COVID-19? Lawmakers discussed these and other questions during a hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic last Tuesday afternoon.Underlying each of these questions were tensions over who should be trusted to answer them.Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) cited reports in the media of Li-Meng Yan, MD, PhD, a Chinese virologist who said SARS-CoV-2 was "intentionally released," and that an accidental leak from a Chinese laboratory was not possible. Marty Makary, MD, MPH, chief of islet transplant surgery, professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and former editor-in-chief of MedPage Today, appeared to agree that a lab leak occurred. Head over to MedPage Today to read more about it.