Posted on 05/05/2020 12:45:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert and member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, rejected the notion that the CCP virus, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, originated in a Chinese lab.
Fauci made the remarks to The National Geographic in an in-depth interview that ranged from virus origin theories to lighter topics prompted by questions like “Wow, how do you unwind?”
Asked whether he believed the virus was made in—or accidentally released from—a Chinese lab, Fauci said there was overwhelming evidence it came from the wild.
“If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats, and what’s out there now is very, very strongly leaning toward this [virus] could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated,” he said, adding that the mutation pattern of the virus is highly suggestive of a natural origin.
“A number of very qualified evolutionary biologists have said that everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that it evolved in nature and then jumped species,” the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said.
A widespread theory, reiterated by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday, is that the virus made the leap from animal to human at one of Wuhan’s wildlife wet markets.
Some claim the virus occurred naturally but was brought into the Wuhan lab for study, from where it escaped, a theory Fauci dismissed as a “circular argument.”
“That means it was in the wild to begin with. That’s why I don’t get what they’re talking about [and] why I don’t spend a lot of time going in on this circular argument,” he said.
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Has he told Hillary Clinton how much he loves her today yet.
ESAD Fauci.
All the wrong questions.
Dr. Fauci:
How deep was the damage the Chinese caused by their lack of honesty and forthrightness?
How do you measure the failure of the Chinese Government in regards to what they unleashed on the world?
The WHO FAILED early to get most of the relevant data points right in regards to COVID-19. What real purpose do they serve and why should US tax dollars support them?
You don’t sound like you don’t really care if the US economy crashes. Is that the “scientist” in you?
Because of the shutdown Drug Abuse is soaring. Alcohol Abuse is soaring. Spousal abuse is on the rise. Child abuse is on the rise. Suicide is on the rise. How bad would this data need to get before you became as concerned about IT as you are COVID-19?
So, the researcher is patient Zero?
You talking about the paper from the Israeli micro biologist?
We will all be safer when Dr. Fraudi is gone.
[[[His response to the second theory is preposterous.
He considers it “circular” and “doesn’t understand” the difference if it occurred in the wild but was brought into the laboratory and infected humans!
He cannot possibly be that F’ing stupid.]]]
Doesn’t matter, the Leftards have their talking point. This guy has delusions of grandeur and has become a liability. He’s been consistently wrong since the beginning. He’s like Joe Biden on foreign policy.
Who is going to win that?
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As a typical RNA virus, the average evolutionary rate or coronaviruses is roughly 10–⁴ nucleotide substitutions per site per year,1 with mutations arising during every replication cycle. It is, therefore, striking that the sequences of 2019-nCoV from different patients described here were almost identical, with greater than 99·9% sequence identity.
This finding suggests that 2019-nCoV originated from one source within a very short period and was detected relatively rapidly. However, as the virus transmits to more individuals,constant surveillance of mutations arising is needed.
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https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(20)30251-8.pdf
Yeah why would he admit that it came from a lab that he provided funds to?
So when did Dr Death Fauci have access to our classified intelligence?
Pompeo says he has some evidence....and he’s apparently not sharing it with Fauci. And that’s a good thing. Fauci seems to only want to contradict Pompeo with his “guess”.
Nonetheless, don’t hand the megaphone over to your detractors. Why do that?
Moreover, these people can do a lot of damage to a very fragile economy. Its a risk not worth taking.
Remove them at once.
Who is to know if the Dr. is correct but I would bet the Chicoms have some of the nastiest viruses on earth in those labs.
Yes. It’s not circular at all.
“Some claim the virus occurred naturally but was brought into the Wuhan lab for study, from where it escaped, a theory Fauci dismissed as a “circular argument.”
“That means it was in the wild to begin with. That’s why I don’t get what they’re talking about [and] why I don’t spend a lot of time going in on this circular argument,” he said.”
What’s not to get?
They isolated it from bat feces they collected. It’s in the lab. It “escapes” and gets in to the general population.
It’s a straightforward scenario that there may be evidence for.
Lying POS
FraudXi
“Do you have the date when these briefings took place.”
January 22, 2020.
“President Trump should have SHUT DOWN the NYT”
Sorry, but this is crazy talk. Even if you think what they print is not “protected speech”, the government is still prohibited from prior restraint.
That means if the New York Times says something that is not protected speech, they can suffer legal or liability consequences AFTER they say it, but the government can never prevent them from saying it or “shut them down” because they might say something else in the future.
Doesn’t want it associated with his handiwork
And if not there, where?
And explain China’s self-interested response to the outbreak.
+10000!!
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