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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,957 posts)
Wed Jun 9, 2021, 09:17 PM Jun 2021

Despite Trump's new round of bullying, Fauci says COVID likely didn't leak from a Chinese lab

Former President Trump, perhaps trying to divert attention from his own disastrous handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, is now lashing out against Dr. Anthony Fauci for allegedly failing to seriously consider that the virus might have originated from China’s Wuhan lab, rather than from an animal’s transmission to humans.

But judging from what Fauci told me in a June 4 interview, the most respected U.S. infectious diseases expert has not yet seen any convincing evidence that the virus may have escaped from a Chinese lab.

Fauci, who heads the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and is a top medical adviser to President Biden, said, “It is more likely” that — much like SARS, ebola, influenza and HIV — COVID-19 “originated from an animal reservoir and jumped species to humans.” He added, “There’s the possibility that it came from the lab, but I believe that that’s a much less likely possibility.”

In the interview, scheduled to be aired Sunday , June 13 n “Oppenheimer Presenta” on CNN en Español, Fauci said that it’s “important” to try to find out the exact origin of the pandemic, so that we can prevent it from happening again.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/despite-trump-round-bullying-fauci-225639442.html

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Despite Trump's new round of bullying, Fauci says COVID likely didn't leak from a Chinese lab (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2021 OP
There's also the fact that this question doesn't really matter much to someone in Fauci's position Hugh_Lebowski Jun 2021 #1
wouldn't matter either way as far as TRUMP goes Skittles Jun 2021 #2
 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
1. There's also the fact that this question doesn't really matter much to someone in Fauci's position
Wed Jun 9, 2021, 09:24 PM
Jun 2021

It's not his damn job to forensically analyze its locational origin, it's his job to help keep people safe once it exists, FFFS

This is just more bullshit and distraction from Captain Gaslight.

Skittles

(153,160 posts)
2. wouldn't matter either way as far as TRUMP goes
Wed Jun 9, 2021, 09:53 PM
Jun 2021

that bastard DROPPED THE FUCKING COVID BALL and there is NO excuse for that other than he was / is AN INCOMPETENT PIECE OF SHIT

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