'No Evidence Coronavirus Was Made
in a Chinese Lab' Fauci Says
By teleSUR
May 05, 2020 "
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Clearing House"
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Trump insists that his administration has evidence
that the virus was created in Wuhan city.
"If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats
and what's out there now, [the scientific evidence] is
very, very strongly leaning toward this could not have
been artificially or deliberately manipulated," Fauci
said in an interview with National Geographic
"Everything about the stepwise evolution over time
strongly indicates that [this virus] evolved in nature
and then jumped species," the U.S. government's leading
epidemiologist added.
His statements are in line with those set forth by
the World Health Organization (WHO), a United Nations
agency that ratified on Monday that the coronavirus is
of animal origin. "The coronavirus circulates
ancestrally between bats.
"That is something we know based on this virus's
genetic sequence. What we need to understand is which
animal... was infected by bats and transmitted it to
humans," the WHO Emerging Diseases Department Director
Maria Van Kerkhove said.
Nevertheless,
Trump insists that the U.S. government has evidence that
the virus was created in a laboratory in Wuhan (China),
something that the Intelligence Directorate also
rejected.
