Dr. Robert Redfield, the former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said recently he believes the novel coronavirus originated inside a lab in Wuhan, China and "escaped," and was potentially spreading as early as September 2019.
"If I was to guess, this virus started transmitting somewhere in September, October in Wuhan," the virologist told CNN in a clip that aired Friday. "That’s my own feelings. And only opinion. I'm allowed to have opinions now."
Though a World Health Organization team performing an investigation into the origins of the virus in Wuhan had called a lab-related incident "extremely unlikely," Redfield said he is "of the point of view that I still think the most likely aetiology of this pathogen in Wuhan was from a laboratory, escaped."
"The other people don’t believe that," said Redfield, who led the CDC under former President Donald Trump. "That’s fine. Science will eventually figure it out. It’s not unusual for respiratory pathogens that are being worked on in a laboratory to infect the laboratory worker."
A World Health Organization team exploring origins of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China, is expected to release a report of its findings soon.
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