Former CDC Director Voices 'Opinion' That Coronavirus 'Most Likely' Came From Wuhan Lab
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The C.D.C.’s ex-director offers no evidence in favoring speculation that the coronavirus originated in a lab.The former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a CNN clip on Friday that he favored a theory, decried by many scientists and rejected as “extremely unlikely” by at least one World Health Organization international expert, that the coronavirus escaped from a lab in Wuhan. The former official, Dr. Robert Redfield, offered no evidence and emphasized that it was his opinion.
“I am of the point of view that I still think the most likely etiology of this pathogen in Wuhan was from a laboratory,...
From the Center
Trump's CDC director makes shocking statement about origin of COVID-19 in Wuhan labFormer director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Robert Redfield, who was at the helm of the government agency at the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2019, spoke on CNN during the network’s upcoming retrospective on how the pandemic unfolded.
Talking to Sanjay Gupta, Redfield opined on where he thinks the virus originated from.
His best guess? A laboratory.
“I am of the point of view that I still think the most likely etiology of this pathogen in Wuhan was from a...
From the Right
CNN dismisses Redfield theory coronavirus came from Wuhan lab as 'controversial' and 'without evidence'Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield told CNN Friday that he believed the coronavirus escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, a theory largely dismissed by the media over the past year and which was swiftly declared evidence-free by CNN itself.
"I'm allowed to have opinions now. I am of the point of view, I still think the most likely ideology of this pathogen in Wuhan was from a laboratory, escaped. Other people don't believe that. That's fine," Redfield told CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta. "Science...
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