Dr. Fauci throws cold water on conspiracy theory that coronavirus was created in a Chinese lab

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top expert on infectious disease, on Friday, rejected a conspiracy theory that the novel coronavirus was created in and escaped a Chinese lab.

At the daily White House press briefing, a reporter asked: "Mr. President, I wanted to ask Dr. Fauci: Could you address these suggestions or concerns that this virus was somehow manmade, possibly came out of a laboratory in China?"

"There was a study recently that we can make available to you, where a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences there and the sequences in bats as they evolve. And the mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now is totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human," Fauci replied.

He underscored in his remarks that studies of the virus' genome have strongly indicated that it was transmitted from an animal to a human rather than created or enhanced in a laboratory setting, as a review in a scientific journal found.

https://news.yahoo.com/dr-fauci-throws-cold-water-020440783.html

[eppur_se_muova]

1. There have been some suggestions that a natural virus *escaped* from a Chinese lab, but ...

people seem to be jumping to the conclusion that it was created in a lab, an obvious non sequitur. The Chinese have ample reason to be studying wild bat viruses, to understand the viruses better and be better prepared for the next, inevitable, outbreak.

[GaYellowDawg]

2. I read that paper 2-3 weeks back

It was very convincing.

[LuvNewcastle]

3. I'm glad someone asked Fauci that.

There needs to be an informed opinion out there to counter Trump's propaganda.