Former Centers for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield on Thursday told Vanity Fair he received death threats from other scientists for saying he suspected COVID-19 originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Redfield told Vanity Fair the death threats came after he told CNN in March, “I am of the point of view that I still think the most likely etiology of this pathogen in Wuhan was from a laboratory, you know, escaped.”
“I was threatened and ostracized because I proposed another hypothesis,” Redfield, a virologist by trade, told the magazine. “I expected it from politicians. I didn’t expect it from science.”
Once dismissed as a conspiracy theory, the idea the novel coronavirus escaped from the Wuhan lab is gaining attention. Vanity Fair’s report claims the U.S. government stood in the way of even discussing the theory.
Former assistant Secretary of State Thomas DiNanno, a Trump appointee, alleged that staff within the department had warned leaders “not to pursue an investigation into the origin of COVID-19” because it could “open a can of worms.”
There were safety concerns by U.S. diplomats of the Wuhan lab as early as March of 2018. Now, all of a sudden this virus did not escape from the lab? Fauci is playing both sides of the fence and getting paid by both.