Fauci Flip Flops On COVID Origins, Now ‘Not Convinced’ Virus Developed Naturally.
Dr.
Anthony Fauci, who discredited the Trump administration’s claims that
COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese lab, now insists he’s “not convinced”
the virus has natural origins.
“Are you still confident that it developed naturally,” Sanders
questioned the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
(NIAID) Director.
“No, actually,” Fauci responded. He continued, adding he was “not convinced” that the virus has natural origins:
“No. I’m not convinced
about that. I think that we should continue to investigate what went on
in China until we find out to the best of our ability exactly what
happened. Certainly, the people who investigated it say it likely was
the emergence from an animal reservoir that then infected individuals,
but it could have been something else, and we need to find that out. So,
you know, that’s the reason why I said I’m perfectly in favor of any
investigation that looks into the origin of the virus.”
Fauci’s newfound skepticism of COVID-19’s natural origins is at odds with his former stance on the issue. As a National Geographic article from May 2020 reveals:
Everything about the stepwise
evolution over time strongly indicates that [this virus] evolved in
nature and then jumped species,” Fauci says. Based on the scientific
evidence, he also doesn’t entertain an alternate theory—that someone
found the coronavirus in the wild, brought it to a lab, and then it
accidentally escaped.
Mainstream media outlets spun
the NIAID Director’s remarks as a rebuke of the Trump administration’s
claims that COVID-19 was traceable to the Wuhan Institue of Virology.
