{"id":565052,"date":"2021-06-15T22:51:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T02:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=565052"},"modified":"2021-06-15T22:51:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T02:51:54","slug":"former-cdc-director-reveals-thoughts-on-pandemics-origins-after-viewing-classified-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-cdc-director-reveals-thoughts-on-pandemics-origins-after-viewing-classified-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CDC Director Reveals Thoughts On Pandemic\u2019s Origins After Viewing Classified Intelligence"},"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\">24<\/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-reveals-thoughts-on-pandemics-origins-after-viewing-classified-intelligence%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=565052&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/RR-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Former CDC Director Robert Redfield told Fox News during a Monday interview that after viewing classified information related to the origins of the pandemic, he believes COVID-19 came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.<\/p>\n<p>Redfield began the interview by dispelling the notion that SARS-CoV-2 was a \u201cSARS-like\u201d virus and said that the public health response was wrong because officials assumed that it was going to be like SARS.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he thought that the coronavirus came from a lab, Redfield said, \u201cWell, my professional opinion, as a virologist, is that\u2019s the hypothesis that I support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a very high-security clearance to work with the State Department and the national security group, including the secretary, Pompeo, where we reviewed material together to try to understand, help him understand what it meant scientifically,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t know if he also asked Dr. Fauci to do the same. But I would say I had probably the highest clearance within the agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services, and therefore was privy to a lot of information, some of which now has been declassified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think, as you see more and more of it declassified, people start saying, well, wait a minute, maybe we ought to look at this other hypothesis at least with the same rigor,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd then, unfortunately, like I mentioned, those scientists and Lancet decided to almost try to power-play you that this is the only way you can think. And I think we\u2019re seeing now that there\u2019s an opening of the scientific community to say, wait a minute, we need to look at both possibilities, and we need to be scientific about this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.659793814433\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield after receiving high-level classified information about the origins of the coronavirus: I believe that the coronavirus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GRVCC2vfJf\">pic.twitter.com\/GRVCC2vfJf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasonrantz\/status\/1404982170712559618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Redfield said that Dr. Anthony Fauci was an \u201cexcellent scientist\u201d but warned that all scientists can form beliefs that are wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Tony is holding on to this hypothesis tightly,\u201d Redfield said regarding Fauci\u2019s assertion that the coronavirus had a natural origin. \u201cNow, why would that be? Well, the reality is, the only way new pathogens historically came into the human species is from a zoonotic source. So, it\u2019s not like this is odd. This is the way it always was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd now you have this other question, as people are doing research, particularly in this range of we call gain of function research, where we\u2019re taking natural pathogens that don\u2019t infect humans, and doing things to them in the lab, where they may gain the capability to infect humans,\u201d he continued. \u201cSo, I find it \u2014 as a virologist, I find it biologically not feasible now that, all of a sudden, this virus, even if we find this intermediate host, which we haven\u2019t found, is that it immediately has somehow learned how to be highly infectious for man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I think \u2014 and, sometimes, scientists, when they get on \u2014 they bite into a bone on a hypothesis, it\u2019s hard for them to move on. I hope Tony steps back and looks at both hypotheses, as I said, and he works really hard to prove that his hypothesis is incorrect, and people that accept the hypothesis that I have put forward work real hard to prove that our hypothesis is incorrect,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut I do think there\u2019s a scientific arrogance that they can control any negative consequences. And you have the Lancet letter, and then you \u2014 then you have all of this push back and forth with e-mails that were going back and forth with Tony. It just seemed like a lot of people wanted to squelch any idea that there was another hypothesis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Redfield said that those in the scientific community who tried to suppress the lab leak theory were \u201cvery anti-science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.7337662337662\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield after receiving high-level classified information about the origins of the coronavirus says Dr. Fauci is holding on to his beliefs about where the pandemic came from too tightly. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4eOv0MO1Xt\">pic.twitter.com\/4eOv0MO1Xt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasonrantz\/status\/1404985283922202629?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former CDC Director Robert Redfield told Fox News during a Monday interview that after viewing classified information related to the origins of the pandemic, he believes COVID-19 came from the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280397,"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\/06\/RR-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Former CDC Director Reveals Thoughts On Pandemic\u2019s Origins After Viewing Classified Intelligence","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/RR-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Former CDC Director Reveals Thoughts On Pandemic\u2019s Origins After Viewing Classified Intelligence","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565052","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=565052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}