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Dr. Fauci Says Evidence ‘Very Strongly’ Shows Virus Did Not Originate in Wuhan Lab
Epoch Times ^ | 05/05/2020 | Tom Ozimek

Posted on 05/05/2020 12:45:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert and member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, rejected the notion that the CCP virus, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, originated in a Chinese lab.

Fauci made the remarks to The National Geographic in an in-depth interview that ranged from virus origin theories to lighter topics prompted by questions like “Wow, how do you unwind?”

Asked whether he believed the virus was made in—or accidentally released from—a Chinese lab, Fauci said there was overwhelming evidence it came from the wild.

“If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats, and what’s out there now is very, very strongly leaning toward this [virus] could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated,” he said, adding that the mutation pattern of the virus is highly suggestive of a natural origin.

“A number of very qualified evolutionary biologists have said that everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that it evolved in nature and then jumped species,” the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said.

A widespread theory, reiterated by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday, is that the virus made the leap from animal to human at one of Wuhan’s wildlife wet markets.

Some claim the virus occurred naturally but was brought into the Wuhan lab for study, from where it escaped, a theory Fauci dismissed as a “circular argument.”

“That means it was in the wild to begin with. That’s why I don’t get what they’re talking about [and] why I don’t spend a lot of time going in on this circular argument,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ccp; coronavirus; fauci; origin; who; wuhanlab
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To: SeekAndFind

Dr Fauci is NOT a virologist. I just finished reading through a VERY DEEP DIVE into a real virologist’s paper which came to a conclusion that such a possibility is NOT out of the range reasonable hypothesis and there is extant evidence in the COVID19 sequencing that seems to show it may have be an engineered Chimera.


41 posted on 05/05/2020 12:57:15 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why were the first briefings to Congress about this virus classified due to national security?

When has that step ever before been taken over a naturally-occurring virus?

Why should I not believe that if there information about a virus that has to be classified for national security it is a good indication the virus may be a biological weapon?


42 posted on 05/05/2020 12:57:23 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: SeekAndFind

Evidence is very strong that Dr. Falsey funded Coronavirus research at Wuhan.

Coincidence?


43 posted on 05/05/2020 12:57:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who could have guessed the Communist Revolution would arrive disguised as the common cold?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Now why would the Leprechaun say that?

Fire his sorry A$$!


44 posted on 05/05/2020 12:57:53 PM PDT by Artcore (Trump 2020!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah, it “evolved” from bats containing the exact protein strings in the S protein from HIV. That “H” is abbreviation for HUMAN.

The same gain of function testing that Fauci was doing prior to his work being suspended in 2014 for violating ethics. Solution? Outsource it to China, specifically to Dr Zhengli.

Fauci should be swinging.


45 posted on 05/05/2020 12:58:41 PM PDT by datura
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To: SeekAndFind

https://ponderwall.com/index.php/2020/04/18/lab-grown-coronavirus/

The Doc who won a Nobel for studying the HIV virus dares to go off plantation about man created virus inserts. Nature did not put hiv into corona.


46 posted on 05/05/2020 12:58:42 PM PDT by silverleaf (President Trump: Do not trust China. China is asshoe!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Some claim the virus occurred naturally but was brought into the Wuhan lab for study, from where it escaped, a theory Fauci dismissed as a “circular argument.”

He is not that stupid. Why would he believe that we are? He must be a tool.

Nobody contends that ALL the virus types in such a lab are manipulated or produced. It could very well be that MOST are naturally occurring. Some naturally occurring virus' might actually escape. But not in Fauci's world, because that would be "circular".

47 posted on 05/05/2020 12:59:19 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: SeekAndFind

Shut up, you quack!


48 posted on 05/05/2020 12:59:48 PM PDT by silent_jonny ("We're all in the same storm together but we're not all in the same boat" ~ Juan Desamarais)
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To: SeekAndFind

He isn’t in the IC, is he?


49 posted on 05/05/2020 12:59:49 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SeekAndFind

This person is an expert at lying.


50 posted on 05/05/2020 1:00:10 PM PDT by mulligan ( En bbnnEeThe tC)
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To: SeekAndFind

TRUMP he is a liar that CAN NOT be trusted!


51 posted on 05/05/2020 1:00:13 PM PDT by ldish (2020 Election will determind if USA remains a Consitutional Republic!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t believe anything this Ferret says


52 posted on 05/05/2020 1:00:32 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: SeekAndFind; grey_whiskers
Here is the link to that article, for anyone who is not afraid to look at hard science presented in its own language and charts, not popular watered down twaddle:

Lab-Made? SARS-CoV-2 Genealogy Through the Lens of Gain-of-Function Research

Trust me, you’ll get lost. . .

53 posted on 05/05/2020 1:00:38 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Of course he said it he gave the same Wuhan lab MILLIONS of dollars from the NIH..he probably was happy this virus was created..notice his a@@ isnt worried about getting the virus, he’s 79 years old you would think he would be worried about contracting it, doesnt seem to show much fear, I wonder why


54 posted on 05/05/2020 1:01:14 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: SeekAndFind

Chris Martenson’s question that he says should be asked repeatedly until someone provides a satisfactory answer:

“How did that polybasic furin cleavage site PRRA get into Covid-19?”

https://youtu.be/uZUJhKUbd0k


55 posted on 05/05/2020 1:01:33 PM PDT by FreedomForce
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To: silverleaf

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2008/montagnier/facts/

Scientist who won Nobel for HIV virus discovery says WuFlu is human-created chimera


56 posted on 05/05/2020 1:01:55 PM PDT by silverleaf (President Trump: Do not trust China. China is asshoe!)
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To: moviefan8

Trump knows Dr Fauci is NOT on his side but what can he do, if he fires him now would make things worse..he has to wait for this insanity to end before he fires him


57 posted on 05/05/2020 1:02:01 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: SeekAndFind

Trump has got to expose and prosecute this fraud.


58 posted on 05/05/2020 1:02:35 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Cowboy Bob

‘Zoonotic’ viruses are pretty well known.

That’s the term for viruses that jump from other species to humans.


59 posted on 05/05/2020 1:04:25 PM PDT by jjotto (“Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.”)
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To: SeekAndFind

Doesn’t make a lot of sense. It jumped species...just like that. It would seem that it would have happened ages ago if it was wild.


60 posted on 05/05/2020 1:04:30 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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