Dr. Anthony Fauci: Coronavirus Likely Wasn’t Created in Wuhan Lab
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, dismissed theories that the Chinese coronavirus was created in a laboratory in Wuhan, placing himself at odds with statements made by President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
“If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats and what’s out there now, [the scientific evidence] is very, very strongly leaning toward this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated,” Fauci said in an interview with National Geographic published Monday.
“Everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that [this virus] evolved in nature and then jumped species,” he added.
Fauci, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, also cast doubt on speculation that the deadly disease was brought into the lab from the wild and later escaped by mistake.
Fauci’s remarks come after Pompeo told ABC’s This Week that there was “enormous evidence” that the coronavirus originated in the Wuhan lab — not a wet market.
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