Dr. Anthony Fauci suggested on Saturday that a coronavirus lab leak could also be considered a 'natural occurrence' while speculating how a lab leak could have happened.
Dr. Anthony Fauci speculated on Saturday that a lab leak could still be considered a "natural occurrence" during an appearance on CNN.could still be considered a"natural occurrence" if the definition of lab leak meant that someone was infected in the wild and went"into a lab," was studied in a lab, and then"came out of the lab."
Fauci joined CNN's Jim Acosta on Saturday and speculated how a coronavirus lab leak could have occurred. "A lab leak could be that someone was out in the wild, maybe looking for different types of viruses in bats, got infected, went into a lab, and was being studied in a lab, and then came out of the lab. But if that's the definition of lab leak, then that's still a natural occurrence," Fauci said.
He said the other possibility was that a virus"accidentally" escaped a lab after being taken from an environment. "The other possibility is someone takes a virus from the environment that doesn't actually spread very well in humans, and manipulates it a bit, and accidentally it escapes or accidentally infects someone and then you get an outbreak," he said."There are no lab leaks that have led to pandemics, so there have been accidents in the lab.
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