Former CDC director: Scientists modified coronavirus before it leaked out of Wuhan lab
Monday, July 12, 2021 by: Ramon Tomey
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Virologist Dr. Robert Redfield said he thinks the Wuhan coronavirus
(COVID-19) was modified by
Chinese scientists before it leaked out
of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China’s central
Hubei province. The former director of the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) added that the COVID-19 virus’s ability to jump
from an animal to a human is not “biologically plausible.” While earlier
reports claimed that the pathogen came from bats, newfound evidence
suggests it originated in the WIV lab, which has sparked an ongoing debate.
Redfield doubled down on
his belief of the lab leak theory in a June 15 interview with Fox
News contributor Dr. Marc Siegel. He said that the virus’s ability
to spread rapidly has never been seen in other coronaviruses. And
while most coronaviruses can cross over from animals to humans, zoonosis
usually occurs at a much slower pace than what was seen with the
Wuhan coronavirus.
“I said
before that I didn’t think it was biologically plausible that COVID-19 went
from a bat to some unknown animal into [humans], and now had become one of
the most infectious
viruses. That’s
not consistent with how other coronaviruses have come into the human species,”
said Redfield, who suspects that the COVID-19 virus, although unintentionally
leaked, had undergone genetic tweaks.
“There’s an alternative
hypothesis that it went from a bat virus [and] got into a laboratory, where …
it was taught [and] educated. [It then] evolved … [and] became a virus that
could efficiently transmit [from] human to human,” explained Redfield.
According to Siegel,
Redfield had a hunch that the Wuhan coronavirus leaked from the WIV
laboratory as early as January 2020. However, the White House Coronavirus Task
Force at the time was focused on what was happening in country.
Former President Donald
Trump and his supporters received criticism for espousing the lab leak theory
in 2020. Just recently, President Joe Biden ordered the closure of a state
department investigation led by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over the
possibility. But as evidence supporting the theory came to light, Biden himself
announced a new 90-day investigation on the matter.
Redfield
criticizes Fauci and the World Health Organization
In his interview with
Siegel, Redfield also took a swipe at infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony
Fauci. Redfield compared the director of the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to a “dog holding on tightly
to a bone” with his insistence on COVID-19’s natural origins.
“Other individuals – Tony
Fauci, for example – would prefer to support that it evolved from nature. I
think Tony is holding on to this [theory] tightly. Why would that be?
Sometimes, scientists bite into a bone on a hypothesis. It’s hard for them to
move on,” the former CDC director commented.
True enough apparently, as
recently publicized emails from the infectious disease expert showed his
staunch support of the coronavirus’s natural origins theory. One email sent to
him back in January 2020 warned that the COVID-19 virus appeared to be
“possibly engineered” upon closer scrutiny
— a warning Fauci seemed to have dismissed, as the NIAID director never once
mentioned this information in any of his interviews. (Related: Immunologist tells
Fauci that Wuhan coronavirus looks engineered – as early as January 2020.)
In his email to Fauci,
Kristian Andersen, an immunologist at the Scripps Research Institute in
California, wrote: “On a phylogenic tree, the virus looks normal and the close
clustering with bats suggest [they] serve as the reservoir. [One] has to look
really closely at all the sequences to see that some of the features
‘potentially’ look engineered.” Andersen also said that he and other
scientists found the Wuhan coronavirus’s genome “inconsistent with expectations
from [the] evolutionary theory.”
Fauci’s firm denial of the
possibility that the COVID-19 virus was engineered is also clear in another
correspondence sent by World Health Organization (WHO)
investigator Peter Daszak. In an April 2020 email, Daszak thanked
Fauci for publicly insisting that COVID-19
had natural origins. “I just wanted to say a personal thank you … for publicly
standing up and stating that the scientific evidence supports a natural origin
for COVID-19 from a bat-to-human spillover, not a lab release.” (Related: Email: Researcher
who funded Wuhan lab admitted to manipulating coronaviruses, thanked Fauci for
dismissing lab leak theory.)
Aside from
Fauci, Redfield also took a swipe at the WHO, which he claims was “highly
compromised” by China. He slammed the global health body for not cracking down
on the communist country and letting Beijing dictate the terms of its probe
into the origins of COVID-19. “I think [the WHO is] highly compromised.
Clearly, [it was] incapable of compelling China to adhere to the treaty
agreements … on global health.”
Redfield ultimately
acknowledged that he should have pushed harder for the CDC to be permitted
inside the WIV laboratory when the virus first emerged. Redfield was appointed
as CDC director in 2018 and was replaced by Dr. Rochelle Walensky in
January 2021 after President Biden assumed office.
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