Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention head Robert Redfield said he was “threatened” for expressing his belief that the novel coronavirus leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
Speaking to Fox News , Redfield said over the last 18 months there has been no new evidence to suggest that the virus evolved from nature, instead there is growing evidence to support that this in fact was a consequence of a laboratory leak.
He said he continues to believe that of the two hypotheses that the laboratory leak is the most likely origin of this virus.
He expressed sadness at how the scientific community failed to approach both hypotheses with an open mind and how he himself was very rapidly sidelined, threatened and really sort of outed because he believed as a virologist that this virus may have come from the laboratory.”
Redfield reportedly received death threats from other scientists in March 2021 after he told CNN that he believed the coronavirus leaked from a lab,.
While initially dismissed as conspiracy theory by some media outlets, the lab-leak hypothesis has gained more widespread acceptance over the past several months.
A bipartisan majority of Americans said they believe the coronavirus leaked from a lab, in a Harvard-Politico poll released in July.
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