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Dr. Fauci Says Evidence ‘Very Strongly’ Shows Virus Did Not Originate in Wuhan Lab
Epoch Times ^ | 05/05/2020 | Tom Ozimek

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ccp; coronavirus; fauci; origin; who; wuhanlab
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1 posted on 05/05/2020 12:45:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Just cashed his CCP check.


2 posted on 05/05/2020 12:46:51 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Fire his ass !!!


3 posted on 05/05/2020 12:47:16 PM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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To: SeekAndFind

translation: It’s a ChiCom designer bioweapon.
The man has yet to be right about anything in his life.


4 posted on 05/05/2020 12:47:27 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: SeekAndFind

Note he’s saying “did not originate”.

He said nothing about “came from”.

There is a diff, but I would not expect the enemedia to differentiate.


5 posted on 05/05/2020 12:47:44 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: SeekAndFind

Does he explain how it “came from the wild?”


6 posted on 05/05/2020 12:47:54 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Mocking Liberals is not only a right, but the duty of all Americans.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The doctor bureaucrat.


7 posted on 05/05/2020 12:48:01 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It is media and celebrity Kolol Aid time people. Will the American people drink the Fauci-Corona-CCP Kool Aid?


8 posted on 05/05/2020 12:48:11 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: SeekAndFind
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.”

What is circular about that assertion?

And, while he's at it, could he expand on the reported $3.5 million contract the US had with the Wuhan lab? What did it cover? What were the results?

9 posted on 05/05/2020 12:48:48 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: SeekAndFind

Is this the same Kung Flu virus he insisted a few months ago posed no danger to the American public? Fibbin’-Ouchy needs to spend more time with his family. His job of screwing up the country is more than complete.


10 posted on 05/05/2020 12:49:05 PM PDT by Ratman0823 (2020 Logic: We all stand together when we all stand apart!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

[[[The man has yet to be right about anything in his life.]]]

He’s so full of sh** his eyes are brown.

Tired of listening to him.


11 posted on 05/05/2020 12:49:48 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It was in the wild in the first place?

Doesnt mean it didnt escape from the lab and only then became a problem..


12 posted on 05/05/2020 12:49:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“the country’s top infectious disease expert”

He’s nothing of the sort.

Just another bureaucrat manager, spewing pre-cooked political drivel.

And now he’s trying not to offend his CCP buddies.


13 posted on 05/05/2020 12:50:02 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: SeekAndFind

Of course it “came from bats”. It was COLLECTED from bats by Chinese virologists and “contained” and studied in the Wuhan lab. And with near certainty was accidentally “released” from there— probably by a lab employee becoming infected.

Fauci is a globalist, gullible (or malevolent) idiot.


14 posted on 05/05/2020 12:50:38 PM PDT by House Atreides (It is not a HOAX but it IS CERTAINLY A PRETEXT)
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To: SeekAndFind
 
 
And Fauci knows this how?
 
 

15 posted on 05/05/2020 12:51:08 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: SeekAndFind

This guy absolutely loves to give comfort to WHO commie head Tedros and the CCP.

He’s playing games. It doesn’t matter. He controls nothing.

President Trump is the decider.


16 posted on 05/05/2020 12:51:11 PM PDT by romanesq (Flubro, from the people who brought you the stupidity of grifters & the letter Q)
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To: SeekAndFind

Was Fauci paid in dollars, yuan, diamonds, or gold?
Inquiring minds want to know.


17 posted on 05/05/2020 12:51:12 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Java4Jay

Fire his ass !!!

************

Fauci seems to have acquired an immunity to that. Birx as well.


18 posted on 05/05/2020 12:51:15 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


19 posted on 05/05/2020 12:51:28 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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“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.”

How the hell is that a circular argument?


20 posted on 05/05/2020 12:52:02 PM PDT by pelican001
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