Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield said he believes the CCP virus, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, originated from a Chinese laboratory. “It’s not unusual for respiratory pathogens that are being worked on in a laboratory to infect a laboratory worker,” Redfield said in an interview with CNN on Friday before adding that his comments are “my opinion.” “Normally, when a pathogen goes from a zoonot to human,” he added, “it takes a while for it to figure out how to become more and more efficient in human to human transmission.” As a result, Redfield said he believes the virus most likely “was from a laboratory” in Wuhan, China, that “escaped.” The former CDC director, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump to head the agency, said he believes the pandemic began as a localized outbreak in Wuhan in either September 2019 or October …
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