My VIP for this week is Dr. Robert Redfield, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who helped lead the response to the coronavirus pandemic for the Trump administration. Now that he is no longer in charge of the CDC, he is free to share his opinions.
In an interview released last Friday, Redfield
said, “I do not believe this [COVID-19] somehow came from a bat to a human.” He
added, “Normally, when a pathogen goes from a zoonot to human, it takes a while
for it to figure out how to become more and more efficient in human to human
transmission.”
Redfield shared his belief that the coronavirus
escaped as a leak from a lab in Wuhan, China, sometime in September or October
2019. “That’s my own feelings. And only
opinion. I’m allowed to have opinions now.”
Acknowledging that his point of view is with
the minority in the scientific community, Redfield stated, “Now, I am of the
point of view that I still think the most likely aetiology of this pathogen in
Wuhan was from a laboratory, escaped.” He added, “The other people don’t
believe that. That’s fine. Science will eventually figure it out. It’s not
unusual for respiratory pathogens that are being worked on in a laboratory to
infect the laboratory worker.”
Will the truth about the origin of
COVID-19 ever be known? That is a good question. However, former Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo and former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe
hinted that they had seen evidence that supports the lab leak theory. It may
take years, but one thing that we know is that truth has a way of finally
finding the light.
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