On Monday's broadcast of CNN's "OutFront," Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Ranking Member Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA) responded to a question on the squelching of the lab leak theory for the origins of COVID-19 by acknowledging that the theory is still a possible explanation for the virus but said the theory was "bundled with" a narrative "about Dr. Fauci, Dr. Collins creating the coronavirus pandemic and that it leaked" and this narrative "manufactures distrust and puts a lot of public health [officials'] lives in jeopardy through these violent death threats that they've been getting."