Shocker: White House Medical expert and immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci flipped the script and confessed that he no longer unequivocally believes that the COVID-19 virus was a natural occurrence. In fact, the Dr. admitted that he’s “not convinced” the virus wasn’t manufactured in the Wuhan lab.
Dr. Fauci, who has led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, said he was unsure when asked by Politi-Hack’s Katie Sanders about whether he was still confident that COVID-19 emerged naturally:
“There’s a lot of cloudiness around the origins of COVID-19 still, so I wanted to ask, are you still confident that it developed naturally?” PolitiFact’s Katie Sanders asked the nation’s top infectious disease expert in an event, United Facts of America: A Festival of Fact-Checking event.
“No actually,” Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) said, around 12 minutes into footage of the event, which was held earlier this month but overlooked by most media outlets. “I am not convinced about that, I think we should continue to investigate what went on in China until we continue to find out to the best of our ability what happened.”
“Certainly, the people who investigated it say it likely was the emergence from an animal reservoir that then infected individuals, but it could have been something else, and we need to find that out. So, you know, that’s the reason why I said I’m perfectly in favor of any investigation that looks into the origin of the virus,” he continued.
“Will you in front of this group categorically say that the COVID-19 virus could not have occurred by serial passage in a laboratory?” Sen. Rand Paul had asked Fauci during a Senate hearing last Tuesday.
Fauci did not explicitly rule out such a possibility: “I do not have any accounting of what the Chinese may have done, and I’m fully in favor of any further investigation of what went on in China,” he said. “However, I will repeat again, the NIH and NIAID categorically has not funded gain of function research to be conducted in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
During the Trump administration, Dr. Fauci openly denied the possibility that the COVID-19 virus could have been man-made and joined the chorus of Democrats who condemned the President for questioning China’s role in its possible development at their Wuhan laboratory.
But now, it’s worth looking into?
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