Trump admin CDC Director Robert Redfield told a congressional committee today that Anthony Fauci froze him out of discussions on Covid-19’s origins. Fauci, who wasn't at the hearing, dismissed Redfield’s accusation as “completely untrue.”
Trump administration CDC Director Robert Redfield told a congressional committee Wednesday that his former colleague, Anthony Fauci, and former National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins froze him out of discussions on Covid-19’s origins.
Redfield said Fauci, who led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the time, and Collins left him out because Redfield suspected the coronavirus had leaked from the Chinese lab.“No one excluded anyone,” he told POLITICO after the hearing. Redfield thought the highly infectious nature of the virus distinguished it from other coronaviruses and made it unlikely to have evolved naturally, he told representatives.
in March 2020 dismissing the possibility of the virus originating in a lab. Farrar is now the World Health Organization’s top scientist.But Republican representatives at the hearingto deflect attention from U.S. funding research at the Wuhan lab.
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