DR. FAUCI

ADMITS COVID-19

COME FROM

WOHAN LAB

By

Søren Nielsen

2021

Robert Redfield, former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, made a shocking reveal: he believes that COVID-19 may come from Wuhan, China lab. 

He believes it wasn't necessarily released intentionally, but that scientists were making a more efficient virus, and it escaped.

During Friday's White House COVID-19 Response Team Briefing, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical advisor to the President and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, offered up his opinion on the origin of the virus responsible for the death of 2.7 million people across the world.

Dr. Redfield told CNN that it was his "opinion" that SARS-CoV-2 did not evolve naturally. 

"I'm of the point of view that I still think the most likely etiology of this pathology in Wuhan was from a laboratory — escaped," he confessed. 

"Other people don't believe that. That's fine. Science will eventually figure it out." Dr. Redfield made clear this was his "opinion."

When asked what he thought about Redfield's statement, Dr. Fauci started by pointing out that the former Chief noted that it was "a possibility" and stating "he's entitled to his opinion."

"I think what he likely was expressing is that there certainly are possibilities as I mentioned, just a few moments ago of how a virus adapts itself to an efficient spread among humans," Fauci continued. 

"You know, one of them is in the lab and one of them, which is the more likely which most public health officials agree with, is that it likely was below the radar screen, spreading in the community in China for several weeks, if not a month or more, which allowed it when it first got recognized clinically to be pretty well adapted. But according to the words of Dr. Redfield, he was saying he was just expressing an opinion and an option of what it could be."

Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted that COVID-19 could have originated in a lab in Wuhan, China — and acknowledged there should be further investigation into the possibility.

The nation’s top infectious-disease doc made the acknowledgment on Capitol Hill while getting grilled by US senators — including Republican Rand Paul, who heatedly butted heads with him over alleged government funding of the lab.

Fauci was flat-out asked by GOP Sen. Roger Marshall, a doctor from Kansas, "Do you think it’s possible that COVID-19 arose from a lab accident … in Wuhan, and should it be fully investigated?"

Fauci had said a few months after the start of the pandemic that the deadly virus most likely "evolved in nature and then jumped species,’" as opposed to being "artificially or deliberately manipulated."

Earlier, Paul, of Kentucky, pressed Fauci over alleged US funding of the Chinese lab involving so-called "gain of function" research.

The research focuses on making a virus more potent in the laboratory as a way to produce better vaccines against it.

"Sen. Paul, with all due respect, you are entirely, entirely and completely incorrect … the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute," Fauci said.

When Paul started to say, "Government scientists like yourself who favor gain function," Fauci interrupted, "I don’t favor gain-of-function research in China."

"You are saying things that are not correct," the doctor said.

In addition to the funding flap, Paul pressed Fauci over the potential link between the virus outbreak and the lab, too.

In March, the World Health Organization released a controversial report saying it is "extremely unlikely’" that the pandemic was caused by a virus leak at the lab.

The WHO findings — which were criticized partly because they lacked potentially crucial data from a secretive Chinese government — said humans likely became infected through an animal that got the virus from bats.

Fauci said at the time that he wanted to review the WHO’s raw data.

"I’d also would like to inquire as to the extent in which the people who were on that group had access directly to the data that they would need to make a determination," he said. 

"I want to read the report first and then get a feel for what they really had access to — or did not have access to."

Still, the same month, Fauci appeared to downplay comments by former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield that the coronavirus was created in the Wuhan lab, saying Redfield was simply expressing his "opinion" when he made the claim.