Trump CDC Chief: Coronavirus 'escaped' from the Chinese Laboratory The World Health Organization has come to the conclusion that the theory is "extremely improbable".
Robert Redfield, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that it believed that the virus that Covid-19 originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China, contradicting the evaluation of the World Health Organization and Most public health experts.
In an interview with Sanjay Gupta de CNN, which was issued on Friday, the former TRUMP administration official also speculated that the virus began transmitting within the Province of Central China Hubei in September or October 2019, a possible framework of Later time with conventional scientific views.
"That's my own vision. It's just an opinion. Now I am allowed to have opinions now," said Redfield, who served as director of CDC 2018 until the end of the former president Donald Trump. He now is a public health adviser to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan in the pandemic response of the State.
With regard to the origins of the virus, Redfield continued saying: "I am from the point of view that I still think that the most likely ideology of this pathogen in Wuhan was from a laboratory. Escaped. Other people do not believe it. It's okay. Science Eventually it will solve it. It is not unusual for respiratory pathogens that are being worked in a laboratory to infect the laboratory worker. "
Redfield's comments come after a WHO team concluded last month, the virus was "extremely unlikely" having filtered from a Chinese laboratory, specifically, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and more probably first transmitted to humans from an animal. It is expected that the WHO team will take a final report on their findings in the near future, although the questions remain on whether their investigation was free enough and open.
Most scientists also believe that the virus developed naturally and, at some unknown point, it jumped from one animal to a human, as well as two related viruses, Sars and Mers, have done in the last two decades. But many experts say they can not completely discard the possibility that the virus escaped from a laboratory, although they consider such a unlikely scenario.
Anthony Faucai, the main expert in infectious diseases of the nation, was addressed to Redfield's interview before Friday at an informative news meeting of the members of the COVID-19 response team of the White House. He said that former colleague of him "was expressing an opinion" about the possible origins of the virus.
"I think what he was probably expressing is that there are certainly possibilities ... how a virus adapts to an efficient spread between humans," said Fauci. "One of them is in the laboratory. And one of them, what is most likely, with which most public health officials agree, is that it was probably below the radar screen, extending in the Community in China for several weeks, if not a month or more, which allowed it when clinically recognized to be quite well adapted. "
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