{"id":1571352,"date":"2022-07-26T10:07:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T14:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1571352"},"modified":"2022-07-26T10:07:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T14:07:24","slug":"former-cdc-director-fires-back-at-faucis-natural-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-cdc-director-fires-back-at-faucis-natural-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CDC Director Fires Back at Fauci\u2019s \u2018Natural\u2019 Claim"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fformer-cdc-director-fires-back-at-faucis-natural-claim%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=1571352&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>Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-robert-redfield\">Robert Redfield<\/a> rejected White House adviser Anthony Fauci\u2019s claims that it\u2019s more likely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-covid-19\">COVID-19<\/a> originated naturally.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview, Fauci said he has an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/fauci-says-he-is-open-on-virus-lab-leak-theory_4618309.html\">open mind<\/a>\u201d but still believes that the virus occurred naturally after previously dismissing the theory that it emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in late 2019. \u201cIt looks very much like this was a natural occurrence, but you keep an open mind,\u201d Fauci said.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about Fauci\u2019s recent comments on Monday, Redfield told Fox News that he still suspects COVID-19 emerged \u201cfrom the laboratory\u201d and \u201chad to be educated in the laboratory to gain the efficient human-to-human transmission capability that it has.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s very little evidence, if you really want to be critical, to support\u201d the natural emergence theory, he said. The former Trump administration official then compared COVID-19 to prior coronaviruses such as\u00a0Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) that emerged about 10 years ago, saying that neither virus had the same transmission capacity as COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it\u2019s really exceptional that this virus is one of the most infectious viruses for man. And I still argue that\u2019s because it was educated how to infect human tissue,\u201d Redfield told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p> Laboratory <\/p>\n<p>The same Wuhan laboratory, he added,\u00a0was the subject of a 2014 report amid claims that researchers performed research on bat-borne viruses that could impact humans.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/12\/15\/wuhan-lab-1200x675-1200x675.jpg\"><\/a> The P4 laboratory on the campus of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, on May 13, 2020. (Hector Retamal\/AFP via Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m disappointed in the [National Institutes of Health] for not leading an objective evaluation from the beginning,\u201d Redfield told the outlet. \u201cI think it really is antithetical to the science where they took a very strong position<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield rejected White House adviser Anthony Fauci\u2019s claims that it\u2019s more likely COVID-19 originated naturally. In a recent interview, Fauci said he has an \u201copen mind\u201d but still believes that the virus occurred naturally after previously dismissing the theory that it emerged from the Wuhan [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"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-1571352","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\/1571352","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571352\/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=1571352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}