Fauci Dismisses Trump’s Coronavirus Wuhan Lab Claims
May 6, 2020
11:59 am
Top US scientist Dr Anthony Fauci has again dismissed claims that the coronavirus was created in a Chinese laboratory.
“If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats and what’s out there now, [the evidence] is very, very strongly leaning toward this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated,” Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told National Geographic magazine in an interview published on Monday.
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“Everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that [this virus] evolved in
