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COVID-19 came from lab leak, report finds | Cuomo
Dr. Robert Redfield, former CDC director under President Trump, who supported the Wuhan lab leak theory and faced significant personal and professional backlash for his stance, joins NewsNations "CUOMO" to discuss the development.
"Well, I think Congressman Wenstrup and his committee did a good job. And I do think that was one of the first conclusions that, uh, the bulk of, uh, the evidence that they have is that it originated from the lab and not natural spillover. And I will say, Chris, we don't have a lot of time."
"There really is a lot of evidence to support that conclusion, but most of the evidence, and I think we'll see it soon. is really the intelligence. I said this, you know, probably two years ago that this will be not be solved by science, this will be solved by the intelligence community."
"I think we can anticipate, hopefully in the next several months, that there'll be a revision of the intelligence community's assessments. We have both the FBI and the Energy Department who've concluded with their scientists that this has come from the Wuhan lab."
"And we have a number of the others that either said it came, maybe came from nature with low, low confidence, or they make no comment. They don't go either way. I think you're going to see a revision of the intelligence communities."
"And I think there'll be consensus that they all are going to come to the same conclusion that the Congress did in this House report, that the bulk of the evidence is that this originated from a lab. I don't think… And then what should we do about it?"
"I think part of the reason is that some of the scientists have not been as forthright in this regard, and maybe why I've been fingered by some of them is that they don't want the federal government regulating science."
"I happen to be one who feel we should have a moratorium on gain of function research and then decide some regulations if we're going to do this research, how to do it in a safe, responsible, effective way. And I think that's the real issue here. But I think if you read the report…"
"And there are a lot of things there in the report about the virology, looking at some of the aspects of this virus, the sequences that just aren't natural. And again, if we have more time at some time, I'm happy to go through with why myself as a clinical virologist came to the conclusion that this is a virus that originated in biomedical research."
Source: NewsNation
https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1863809258346660130
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