America’s top infectious disease expert became the face of its pandemic response, and now his recently released emails from early on in the crisis have prompted much debate and speculation – but why?

On the Sky News Daily podcast with Dermot Murnaghan, we speak to our Asia correspondent Tom Cheshire and Aaron Blake from The Washington Post about conspiracy theories and decision making last year.

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