Top US doctor favors 9/11-style commission on US COVID-19 response: media

NEW YORK - Top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci believed that there will be a "9/11-type commission" to investigate the nation's response to the deadly COVID-19 pandemic once the virus is brought under control, reported The Hill, a US political publication.

In an interview with CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday when asked whether he would support such an investigation to determine what the nation did right and where it fell short with regard to the pandemic and public health, Fauci answered: "Oh, I absolutely want one."

"I think what's going to happen is that you are going to see that for sure," he said.

"I think the lack of doing that now is because you're focusing on getting this thing under control. I would be astounded if we didn't have a very serious look at what went right, what went wrong, from a public health standpoint, from a local standpoint, from a global standpoint," he said.

"I don't think that the public should imagine that this is going to go through with already 760,000 Americans dying and 40 plus million at least being infected, close to 6 million people globally dying. And we're not going to look back at this and tear it apart, examine it, do an autopsy on it and try and figure it out," he added.

Fauci believed the Joe Biden administration will initiate such an investigation once the coronavirus outbreak in the United States is under control.