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Dr Fauci briefed world leaders coronavirus escaped from Wuhan lab in SPRING Scott Gottlieb reveals

The former head of the Food and Drug Administration, Scott Gottlieb, has said Dr.  told world leaders in the spring of 2020 that the may have escaped from a lab in Wuhan, .  

U.S. researchers around that time still were considering whether the virus came from a lab break, and Fauci told the health leaders gathered that the newly identified strain of the coronavirus 'looked unusual,' according to Gottlieb.

The disclosure from the former FDA chief comes as an increasing number of mainstream scientists and media figures no longer are parroting the line from the Chinese Communist Party that the virus came from a bat. 

Even President Joe Biden has ordered government agencies to investigate the possibility that it might have come from a lab.

Now, Gottlieb says Fauci last year at least considered that COVID-19 could have come from a lab - before closing ranks around the idea that it occurred naturally. 

Gottlieb, who served under President Donald Trump, said a former senior member of the Trump administration told him at the time of Fauci's 2020 talk. Gottlieb said he'd recently reconfirmed with that person that Fauci had given the talk. 

'I think early on, when they looked at the strain, they had suspicions,' Gottlieb recalled Sunday on  Face the Nation, speaking of U.S. scientists. 'And it takes time to do that analysis, and that dispelled some of those suspicions,' he added.

Meanwhile, Gottlieb said it was a mistake to only look at the virus from a scientific perspective: It also needs to be examined from a national security lens, he said.

'A scientific mindset looks at the virus and the virus' behavior and draws a conclusion,' he said. 

'A national security assessment looks at that and then looks at the behavior of the Chinese government, the behavior of the lab, other evidence around the lab - including the infections we now know took place - and that changes the overall assessment,' he said.

Although some experts still believe the virus was transmitted from a bat to some other species of animal, then to humans, its origins remain unproven.

The Wuhan lab was famed for conducting tests on bat coronaviruses, with experts who support the leak theory saying the same city being ground zero for the outbreak is too great a coincidence to ignore.  

Fauci is now facing accusations that he mishandled and downplayed the theory the virus leaked from the lab in Wuhan.

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A Chinese military scientist with ties to the United States reportedly filed a patent for a COVID-19 vaccine well before the disease was declared a global pandemic. 

Yusen Zhou, who worked for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), lodged the paperwork on behalf of the Chinese political party on February 24 2020, according to n newspaper. 

That date was just five weeks after first confirmed human transmission of the . 

Zhou is also said to have 'worked closely' with scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), including Shi Zhengli - the deputy director of the lab who is famous for her research on coronavirus in bats.  

Zhou mysteriously died less than three months after he filed the patent. claims his death was only reported in one Chinese media report, despite the fact he was one of the country's most prominent scientists. 

Zhou had previously worked on research linked to the US institutions, including the University of Minnesota and the New York Blood Center, the newspaper reported.   

Last week, a trove of Fauci's emails were released which span the early days of the pandemic. 

In one email, from Feb. 1 of last year, Kristian Andersen, a researcher at the Scripps Research Institute, wrote to Fauci, the longtime director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, about ongoing efforts to decipher the origin of the novel coronavirus.

At the time, the lab leak hypothesis was largely dismissed by many experts. It has recently gained traction.

'The unusual features of the virus make up a really small part of the genome (0.1%) so one has to look really closely at all the sequences to see that some of the features (potentially) look engineered,' Andersen wrote. 

He said he and his colleagues 'all find the genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory. 

But,' he added, 'we have to look at this much more closely and there are still further analyses to be done, so those opinions could still change.'

By the next month, it turned out, they had. 

He and his colleagues published an article in Nature Medicine in which they concluded that it was 'improbable that SARS-CoV-2 emerged through laboratory manipulation of a related SARS-CoV-like coronavirus.'

In another email, Fauci was thanked by the head of a nonprofit that helped fund research at China´s Wuhan Institute of Virology, 'for publicly standing up and stating that the scientific evidence supports a natural origin,' which he said 'will help dispel the myths being spun around the virus´ origins.'

Andersen, the scientist who wrote the 'engineered' email, has tried to offer further explanation.

'As I have said many times, we seriously considered a lab leak a possibility.

'However, significant new data, extensive analyses, and many discussions led to the conclusions in our paper. What the email shows, is a clear example of the scientific process,' he tweeted amid the backlash.

First Lady Jill Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci toured a COVID-19 vaccination site at a historic Harlem church on Sunday as the White House was standing by the top medical adviser after he's come under fire for his handling of the virus. 

Biden, Fauci and U.S. Sen Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York Democrat, watched as people got their shots in the basement of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in the New York City neighborhood. 

But outside the place of worship there were dozens of protesters chanting against Fauci, who advocated for lockdowns and mask-wearing when some now are saying those measures went too far. 

Meanwhile, he's taken heat for flip-flopping on whether COVID-19 is man-made - perhaps leaked from a Wuhan lab - or whether it is naturally occurring, coming from a bat as China contends.  

Former President Donald Trump, who brought Fauci on as a top adviser, has now recently blasted him. On Saturday night, he called him 'great promoter, not a great doctor.' 

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