{"id":7489,"date":"2021-03-27T10:01:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T10:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=7489"},"modified":"2021-03-27T10:01:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T10:01:56","slug":"ex-cdc-director-believes-covid-19-escaped-from-a-lab-but-cites-no-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2021\/03\/27\/ex-cdc-director-believes-covid-19-escaped-from-a-lab-but-cites-no-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-CDC director believes COVID-19 escaped from a lab, but cites no evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Robert Redfield, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), says that he believes the novel coronavirus escaped from a lab in Wuhan, according to news reports. However, many experts have rejected that theory as unlikely.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7490\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Ex-CDC-director-believes-COVID-19-escaped-from-a-lab-but-cites-no-evidence-rapidnews-dailyrapid.jpg\" alt=\"Ex-CDC-director-believes-COVID-19-escaped-from-a-lab-but-cites-no-evidence-rapidnews-dailyrapid\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Ex-CDC-director-believes-COVID-19-escaped-from-a-lab-but-cites-no-evidence-rapidnews-dailyrapid.jpg 990w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Ex-CDC-director-believes-COVID-19-escaped-from-a-lab-but-cites-no-evidence-rapidnews-dailyrapid-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Ex-CDC-director-believes-COVID-19-escaped-from-a-lab-but-cites-no-evidence-rapidnews-dailyrapid-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Ex-CDC-director-believes-COVID-19-escaped-from-a-lab-but-cites-no-evidence-rapidnews-dailyrapid-675x450.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In an\u00a0<u>interview with CNN<\/u>\u00a0released Friday (March 26), Redfield stressed that this was his &#8220;opinion&#8221; on the origins of the virus, and he did not cite any evidence for that theory. &#8220;I&#8217;m allowed to have opinions now,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"hawk-placeholder\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" data-viewports=\"tablet\" data-widget-id=\"1428436424661454300\" data-result=\"missing\"><\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m of the point of view that I still think the most likely etiology of this pathogen in Wuhan was from a laboratory, you know, escaped,&#8221; Redfield told CNN&#8217;s Dr. Sanjay Gupta. &#8220;Other people don&#8217;t believe that, that&#8217;s fine. Science will eventually figure it out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, have been hotly debated, and some experts have said we may never know exactly where the virus came from,\u00a0<u>Live Science previously reported<\/u>. The idea that the virus emerged from a lab arose early on in the pandemic, when people noted that a high-security biolab in Wuhan, the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), was studying\u00a0<u>coronaviruses<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, a number of scientists say the most likely explanation is that the virus emerged naturally, passing from bats to another animal and then to humans,\u00a0<u>Live Science previously reported<\/u>. Recently, a team from the World Health Organization, which is investigating the origins of SARS-CoV-2, said that it agrees with this hypothesis \u2014 WHO officials said the virus likely passed from bats to animals on wildlife farms in China, and then to humans,\u00a0<u>Live Science previously reported<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>Redfield said he didn&#8217;t believe the bat theory. &#8220;Normally, when a pathogen goes from a zoonosis to humans, it takes a while for it to figure out how to become more and more efficient in human-to-human transmission,&#8221; Redfield told CNN. &#8220;I just don&#8217;t think this makes biological sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former CDC chief wasn&#8217;t suggesting SARS-CoV-2 is an engineered virus \u2014 another theory with no supporting evidence \u2014 just a natural escapee. &#8220;In the lab, you think that that process of becoming more efficient was happening?&#8221; Gupta asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, let&#8217;s just say I have coronavirus that I&#8217;m working on. Most of us in the lab, we&#8217;re trying to grow a virus, we try to help make it grow better and better and better \u2026 so we can do experiments,&#8221; Redfield responded.<\/p>\n<p>But some experts have noted that the SARS-CoV-2 genome is genetically different from other coronaviruses that were being studied in the Wuhan lab in important ways.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The SARS-CoV-2 virus has some key differences in specific genes relative to previously identified coronaviruses \u2014 the ones a laboratory would be working with,&#8221; Dr. Adam Lauring, an associate professor of microbiology, immunology and infectious diseases at the University of Michigan Medical School, told Live Science in April 2020. &#8220;This constellation of changes makes it unlikely that it is the result of a laboratory &#8216;escape&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, responded to Redfield&#8217;s comments, telling CNN, &#8220;Obviously, 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