Former CDC Director Claims He Was ‘Threatened and Ostracized’ for Supporting Lab-Leak Theory

Former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield says he was “threatened and ostracized” by scientists after telling CNN he believes that COVID-19 most likely originated in a lab in China.

“I was threatened and ostracized because I proposed another hypothesis,” Redfield told Vanity Fair.

He added, “I expected it from politicians. I didn’t expect it from science.”

During his CNN interview in March, Redfield said he believes COVID-19 most likely “was from a laboratory” in Wuhan, China, that “escaped,” as IJR reported.

He continued, “Science will eventually figure it out.”

Stressing he does not believe the virus “somehow came from a bat to a human,” Redfield also said it does not make “biological sense” for one of the “most infectious viruses that we know in humanity for human transmission” to transmit from animals to humans so effectively.

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The debate over the lab-leak theory gained momentum after The Wall Street Journal reported on a State Department fact sheet, issued during the Trump administration, that revealed several researchers at the lab fell ill in the fall of 2019 “with symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and common seasonal illness,” as IJR reported.

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