Quote:Dr. Anthony Fauci, who discredited the Trump administration’s claims that COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese lab, now insists he’s “not convinced” the virus has natural origins.

Fauci’s comments came during an interview with PolitiFact’s Katie Sanders as part of the Chinese Communist Party-linked company’s United Facts of America: A Festival of Fact-Checking event.

“Are you still confident that it developed naturally,” Sanders questioned the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director.

“No, actually,” Fauci responded. He continued, adding he was “not convinced” that the virus has natural origins:

“No. I’m not convinced about that. I think that we should continue to investigate what went on in China until we find out to the best of our ability exactly what happened. Certainly, the people who investigated it say it likely was the emergence from an animal reservoir that then infected individuals, but it could have been something else, and we need to find that out. So, you know, that’s the reason why I said I’m perfectly in favor of any investigation that looks into the origin of the virus.”

Fauci’s newfound skepticism of COVID-19’s natural origins is at odds with his former stance on the issue. As a National Geographic article from May 2020 reveals:

“Everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that [this virus] evolved in nature and then jumped species,” Fauci says. Based on the scientific evidence, he also doesn’t entertain an alternate theory—that someone found the coronavirus in the wild, brought it to a lab, and then it accidentally escaped.

Mainstream media outlets spun the NIAID Director’s remarks as a rebuke of the Trump administration’s claims that COVID-19 was traceable to the Wuhan Institue of Virology

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Its not news when Fauci flip flops. Your label is a lie!

I dont know how to tell the numbnut leftist this, but Trump was right again.

In fact, Trump was been continually right on Covid, whereas the left, Fauci, the CDC, and the WHO have been about as dismally wrong as you could get.

What is the “flip-flop” here exactly? It sounds like he just wants to have the information available before they say they know where it came from? You guys really are stretching here.

(05-23-2021 08:05 AM)UCF08 Wrote:  What is the “flip-flop” here exactly? It sounds like he just wants to have the information available before they say they know where it came from? You guys really are stretching here.

You're right UCF08 !!!

How can a guy that you cannot believe anything he says be able to flip flop???

Grrr science man careful to say something before he had evidence and that makes me mad.

I feel certain some of these people have sexual fantasies about Fauci