Donald Trump’s CDC Director Robert Redfield disclosed that he actually received “death threats” from other scientists when he discussed the theory that the novel coronavirus developed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
In a new interview in Vanity Fair, entitled “The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins,” Redfield shared the disturbing bit of information.
By spring of 2021, the debate over COVID-19’s origins had become so noxious that death threats were flying in both directions.
In a CNN interview on March 26, Dr. Redfield, the former CDC director under Trump, made a candid admission: “I am of the point of view that I still think the most likely etiology of this pathogen in Wuhan was from a laboratory, you know, escaped.” Redfield added that he believed the release was an accident, not an intentional act. In his view, nothing that happened since his first calls with Dr. Gao changed a simple fact: The WIV needed to be ruled out as a source, and it hadn’t been.
After the interview aired, death threats flooded his inbox. The vitriol came not just from strangers who thought he was being racially insensitive but also from prominent scientists, some of whom used to be his friends. One said he should just “wither and die.”
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