Former CDC Director: COVID-19 originated in China lab

March 26, 2021 KT1 US 0

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 30: Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), listens during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on June 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. The committee will discuss efforts on safely getting back to work and school during the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Al Drago - Pool/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, D.C. – JUNE 30: Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), listened during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on June 30, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Al Drago – Pool/Getty Images)

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The former CDC director went on record, saying he believes the novel coronavirus was created in a Wuhan lab and escaped through infected workers.

“I am of the point of view that I still think the most likely ideology of this pathogen in Wuhan was from a laboratory. You know, escaped. Other people don’t believe that, that’s fine,” former CDC director Robert Redfield said. “Science will eventually figure it out. It’s not unusual for respiratory pathogens that are being worked on in a laboratory to infect a laboratory worker.”

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In an interview with CNN being released this weekend, Redfield said based on his expertise, it seems unlikely that COVID-19 started in a Wuhan wet market, as reported by the Chinese communist government.

Although Redfield said he’s basing the assessment on his own opinion, he added it would be scientifically impossible for the virus to have been as infectious as it was in such a short amount of time.

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 19: - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Commissioner Robert Redfield speaks during a White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on November 19, 2020 in Washington, DC. The White House held its first Coronavirus Task Force briefing in months as cases of COVID-19 are surging across the country ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 19: – Robert Redfield spoke during a White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on November 19, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

“I have spent my life in virology,” Redfield stated. “I do not believe this somehow came from a bat to a human, and at that moment in time, the virus became one of the most infectious viruses that we know in humanity for human-to-human transmission.”

The mainstream media has repeatedly dismissed reports from experts who made the same assumptions about the virus throughout the pandemic.