- ZERO HEDGE - TYLER DURDEN - MAR 9, 2023 -
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) was on fire Wednesday during the first COVID select subcommittee investigating the origins of Covid-19, where former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said he was "sidelined" from internal debates over the origins of the virus, and that former White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci didn't appreciate Redfield's support for the theory that it emerged from a lab.
"This was an a priori decision that there’s one point of view that we’re going to put out there, and anyone who doesn’t agree with it is going to be sidelined," said Redfield. "And as I say, I was only the CDC director, and I was sidelined."
The 71-year-old Redfield told Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) that his support for the lab leak theory likely prompted his exclusion.
"I think I made it very clear in January [2020] to all of them why we had to aggressively pursue this," he said. "And I let them know as a virologist that I didn’t see that this was anything like SARS or MERS. … And they knew that was how I was thinking."
Jordan then focused the conversation to two top Fauci advisers - Dr. Kristian Andersen and Dr. Robert Garry - who suddenly changed their stance on lab leak theory. The two notably emailed Fauci on Jan. 31, 2020 where they suggested that anomalies in the virus pointed to a non-natural origin. According to Anderson, the virus had "unusual features" that "(potentially) look engineered," and that other scientists "all find the genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory."
Jordan went on a tear...
"So three days after they say it came from a lab, they changed their position, and the only intervening event was a conference call with Dr. Fauci and Dr. Collins. Again, a call that Mr. Redfield (CDC Director at the time) was not allowed to be on ... And then three months later, Shazam! They get 9 million bucks from Dr. Fauci. Why, isn't that something?"
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