Monday, March 20, 2023

IN THE NEWS---FORMER CDC DIRECTOR :NIH LEADERSHIP WAS ANTITHETICAL TO SCIENCE

Former CDC Director Robert Redfield: 'NIH Leadership Was Antithetical to Science'
In an interview, Redfield criticized Anthony Fauci for tamping down on speculation about the potential lab leak origins of COVID-19.

ROBBY SOAVE | 3.20.2023 5:30 PM
Robert Redfield (Lenin Nolly/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom)

Robert Redfield, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), says he's unpersuaded by recent reporting that raccoon dogs at a wet market in Wuhan, China, may have launched the COVID-19 pandemic.

"I think it's important, first, they didn't show the raccoon dogs were actually infected," said Redfield in an interview on Rising, the YouTube show I host for The Hill. "What they showed is they could have DNA from raccoon dogs on swabs that also had the COVID-19 virus. It's not unusual for animals to be infected as opposed to being the intermediate reservoir."     MORE AT Former CDC Director Robert Redfield: 'NIH Leadership Was Antithetical to Science' (reason.com)

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