by Robert Kraychik at Breitbart News
Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), testified on Wednesday that his examination of SARS-CoV-2 virus led him to believe that the novel coronavirus emerged via an “accidental lab leak.”
Redfield, a medical doctor and virologist, offered his remarks while testifying before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic in what C-SPAN branded as a hearing on the “origins of COVID-19.”
Former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield: "Based on my initial analysis of the data, I came to believe and I still believe today that it indicates that COVID-19 more likely was the result of an accidental lab leak than a result of a natural spillover event." pic.twitter.com/qz5Qdf8Zrc
— CSPAN (@cspan) March 8, 2023
The SARS-CoV-2 virus’s features and behavior, Redfield stated, suggested synthetic origins as opposed to zoonotic evolution:
Based on my initial analysis of the data, I came to believe — and I still believe today — that it indicates that COVID-19 more likely was the result of an accidental lab leak than a result of a natural spillover event. This conclusion is based primarily on the biology of the virus itself, including the rapid high infectivity for human-to-human transmission, which would then predict the rapid evolution of new variants as well as a number of other important factors, which also include the unusual actions in and around Wuhan in the fall of 2019.
Redfield likened the “COVID-19 pandemic” to gain-of-function research, a process through which a virus is manipulated to increase its pathogenicity, infectivity, or lethality:…
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