{"id":320404,"date":"2021-03-26T17:31:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T21:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=320404"},"modified":"2021-03-26T17:31:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T21:31:56","slug":"former-cdc-director-covid-19-originated-in-china-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-cdc-director-covid-19-originated-in-china-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CDC Director: COVID-19 originated in China lab"},"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\">16<\/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-covid-19-originated-in-china-lab%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=320404&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--><div id=\"attachment_2392627\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2392627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 JUNE 30: Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), listened during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on June 30, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Al Drago \u2013 Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 2:18 PM PT \u2013 Friday, March 26, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The former CDC director went on record, saying he believes the novel coronavirus was created in a Wuhan lab and escaped through infected workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am of the point of view that I still think the most likely ideology of this pathogen in Wuhan was from a laboratory. You know, escaped. Other people don\u2019t believe that, that\u2019s fine,\u201d former CDC director Robert Redfield said. \u201cScience will eventually figure it out. It\u2019s not unusual for respiratory pathogens that are being worked on in a laboratory to infect a laboratory worker.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump&#8217;s CDC director Robert Redfield says he believes COVID-19 &#8216;escaped&#8217; from a Wuhan lab and started spreading as early as September 2019- <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DfDUOgUFKP\">pic.twitter.com\/DfDUOgUFKP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Blanche Victoria (@tammytabby) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tammytabby\/status\/1375490704298901504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In an interview with CNN being released this weekend, Redfield said based on his expertise, it seems unlikely that COVID-19 started in a Wuhan wet market, as reported by the Chinese communist government.<\/p>\n<p>Although Redfield said he\u2019s basing the assessment on his own opinion, he added it would be scientifically impossible for the virus to have been as infectious as it was in such a short amount of time.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2392628\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2392628\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2392628\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3829.jpeg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 19: - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Commissioner Robert Redfield speaks during a White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on November 19, 2020 in Washington, DC. The White House held its first Coronavirus Task Force briefing in months as cases of COVID-19 are surging across the country ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.  (Photo by Tasos Katopodis\/Getty Images)\" width=\"655\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3829.jpeg 655w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3830.jpeg 315w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3831.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3832.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2392628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 NOVEMBER 19: \u2013 Robert Redfield spoke during a White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on November 19, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI have spent my life in virology,\u201d Redfield stated. \u201cI do not believe this somehow came from a bat to a human, and at that moment in time, the virus became one of the most infectious viruses that we know in humanity for human-to-human transmission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mainstream media has repeatedly dismissed reports from experts who made the same assumptions about the virus throughout the pandemic.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/president-trump-on-jan-6-protests-posed-zero-threat-to-those-inside\/\"> President Trump On Jan. 6 Protests: Posed \u2018Zero Threat\u2019 To Those Inside<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 JUNE 30: Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), listened during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311226,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3829.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Former CDC Director: COVID-19 originated in China lab","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3829.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Former CDC Director: COVID-19 originated in China lab","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320404","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}