{"id":1568479,"date":"2022-07-24T08:05:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T12:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1568479"},"modified":"2022-07-24T08:05:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T12:05:16","slug":"fauci-says-he-is-open-on-virus-lab-leak-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fauci-says-he-is-open-on-virus-lab-leak-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauci Says He Is \u2018Open\u2019 on Virus Lab Leak Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffauci-says-he-is-open-on-virus-lab-leak-theory%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1568479&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-anthony-fauci\">Anthony Fauci<\/a> says he is keeping an \u201copen mind\u201d over claims that the coronavirus may have leaked from a Chinese lab, despite his long-standing assertion that the virus had a natural origin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have an open mind but it looks very much like this was a natural occurrence, but you keep an open mind,\u201d Fauci\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/fauci-keeping-open-mind-covid-lab-leak-theory\">told Fox News<\/a> on July 23. The director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases argued that more allegations over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-lab-leak\">lab leak<\/a> theory \u201cdoesn\u2019t mean there\u2019s more evidence of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden was pressed during the interview on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_morningbrief\/new-emails-reveal-faucis-role-in-shaping-highly-influential-paper-that-established-covid-natural-origin-narrative_4225917.html\">email comments<\/a> he made two years ago, claiming the lab leak theory would go away in time, despite evidence and internal expert opinions pointing to the opposite; that the virus came from a lab and not an animal.<\/p>\n<p>It came when the P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a biosafety lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan, was widely believed to be where the coronavirus first emerged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you read the email from Kristian Andersen who says \u2026 \u2018one has to look really closely to see some features [potentially] look engineered,\u2019\u201d said Fox News anchor Bret Baier. \u201cAnd you say this is a shiny object and it will go away. It does not look like you\u2019re open minded to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBret, I know you\u2019re a good person, I\u2019ve known you a long time,\u201d Fauci responded. \u201cIf you take a group of emails when people are considering and thinking out loud, and stop there, and don\u2019t look at the weeks of consideration by the same people who wrote the same emails \u2026 in published peer review literature, they explain why they thought it was a natural occurrence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Controversies <\/p>\n<p>The emails, disclosed by House Republicans\u00a0in January this year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci says he is keeping an \u201copen mind\u201d over claims that the coronavirus may have leaked from a Chinese lab, despite his long-standing assertion that the virus had a natural origin. \u201cWe have an open mind but it looks very much like this was a natural occurrence, but you keep an open mind,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1568479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}