Former CDC Director Says American Tax Dollars Funded Research At Wuhan Lab That Created COVID

Robert Redfield was a former Director of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He stated that American tax dollars were used to fund gain of function research at Wuhan Institute of Virology, which led to the creation of COVID.

Redfield, who was speaking to the House Oversight Select Subcommittee of the Coronavirus Pandemic, reaffirmed his claim that COVID is transmitted from bats to humans. Redfield also stated that science has shown that the Chinese Communist Party ran-lab in Wuhan may have been the source of one of the most deadly viruses.

Following concerns raised by members of the subcommittee about COVID’s origins, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R.NY) asked if American tax dollars could have funded the research to gain function that caused the virus.

“I think it did,” Redfield stated. “Not only from [National Institute of Health] but from the State Department, USAID, and from [Department of Defense].”

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Ms. Malliotakis: “Is it likely that American tax dollars funded the gain-of-function research that created this virus?”

Dr. Redfield: “I think it did — not only from NIH but from the State… https://t.co/zLrT8CjFCZ pic.twitter.com/OqsTsb1hFg

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After U.S. Energy Department officials had revised the document judged with, House Republicans set up the hearing. “low confidence” It was found that the virus had been released from a Chinese laboratory.

Recent classified intelligence provided by the White House to key congressional members showed that Energy Department officials changed their assessments of the origins of the pandemic in an updated 2021 report prepared by Avril Haines’s Office, Director of National Intelligence.

Also, the updated classified report confirms that COVID didn’t stem from any biological weapons program. Researchers and U.S. officials suspect that there was a leak in Wuhan’s laboratory assemblage.

A new memo was also promoted by the subcommittee on Sunday, claiming that new evidence supports Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “prompted the drafting” This is “Proximal Origin” Redfield dismissed the Lab Leak Theory as an absurdity. “inaccurate paper” Created to unite behind a constructed story, the virus’ origins emerged in a Wuhan wet market.

A review of evidence by the GOP-led Select Subcommittee on Coronavirus Pandemic shows that Fauci, along with at least twelve other scientists (including former National Institute of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins), were the ones who first learned of the possibility of the virus being released from Wuhan, a laboratory in central China, during a conference phone call.

Redfield claimed that Collins and Fauci intentionally exclusion Redfield from conference calls with other officials in the health field to talk about the virus’s origins.

“I was quite upset as the CDC director that I was excluded in those discussions,” He said. “Why would they do this? Because I had a different point of view, and I was told they made a decision that they would keep this confidential.”

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Fauci dismisses Redfield’s accusations to Politico “completely untrue.”

“No one excluded anyone,” After the hearing, he spoke to POLITICO. He was not there. “And the idea of saying that he was not wanted there because he had a different opinion … there were several people on the call who had the opinion that it might have been an engineered virus.”

In 2018, President Donald Trump appointed Dr. Redfield to the CDC Director position, until he resigned in 2021 as President Joe Biden inaugurated a new government.

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