Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Robert Redfield has raised the possibility that COVID-19 originated in a laboratory in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, rather than the widely speculated Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
In his first interview since leaving office, Redfield, who led the CDC during the first Trump administration, told author and podcaster Dana Parish that there is “a real possibility” the virus was engineered domestically. However, he acknowledged a lack of definitive evidence to support his hypothesis.
💣 👀 “What was the US role in Covid origins? Is it possible the virus was created here and that China was framed?” pic.twitter.com/xiKaQOaeN4
— Dana Parish (@danaparish) November 14, 2024
Redfield speculated that COVID-19 may have been developed as part of the U.S. government’s National Biodefense Strategy. He suggested that the pathogen, possibly engineered for biodefense purposes, inadvertently triggered a global pandemic. “There’s no question in my mind it was an engineered virus,” Redfield said during the 90-minute discussion, while emphasizing the need for further investigation into its origins.
The conversation also explored the timeline of COVID-19’s spread. Redfield noted that while the virus was first detected in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, the Chinese government may have been disproportionately blamed for its global consequences. According to reports, the virus is responsible for an estimated 20 to 35 million deaths worldwide.
Mediaite obtained a transcript of the interview, shedding light on Redfield’s controversial claims:
“You were just asking me how I think this. This vaccine was—this virus was engineered,” Redfield began. “I think it was intentionally engineered as a part of a biodefense program.”
“What was the U.S.’s role in that?,” Parish inquired.
“Well, I think it was substantial,” Redfield said. “And this is why, you know, when you look at the accountability for China, their accountability is not in the lab work and in the creation of the virus. Their accountability is not following the international health regulations after they realized that they had a problem. And allowing people like me at CDC to come in and to help them within 48 hours like they were obligated to based on the treaty. But the U.S. role was substantial. One is they funded the research both from NIH, the State Department, USAID and the Defense Department. All four of those agencies helped fund this research. Secondly, the scientific mastermind behind this research is a guy named Ralph Baric at the University of North Carolina, and he was very involved in this research. I think he probably helped create some of the original viral lines, but I can’t prove that. But he was very involved.”
Parish quickly followed up: “Some have said that they are concerned that it was actually developed here and China was right, is that possible?”
“Well, I don’t know if they were framed, but I think there is a real possibility that the virus’s birthplace was Chapel Hill,” Redfield replied.
“Yeah. What happened at the military games in October 2019?,” Parish asked, inquiring about events preceding the pandemic which caused the largest global recession since the Great Depression.
“Well, in August, September, the initial cases of COVID in Wuhan began,” Redfield explained. “Clearly, by the middle of September, there was a significant problem. Okay, because—and I can’t remember the exact date. I think it’s in the public domain now, it was classified, but I think it was September 19th—but they did three things. They changed the leadership of the lab. So it was a dual-use lab. They changed it from civilian to military. So the military was now put in charge of the lab. They did something highly irregular, which is they deleted the research sequences of Covid viruses that they had done years before. So the whole database was deleted.”
Kipp Jones from Mediaite has more background information:
Redfield previously criticized people within his own community who dismissed the Covid lab leak theory as “anti-science.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci also previously criticized Redfield after the former CDC director claimed he had been excluded from a conference call as the country’s top scientists discussed the origins of Covid.
Redfield had said he believed Fauci wanted one narrative that Covid occurred naturally. Fauci said in response that half the scientists on the call in question agreed with Redfield that the virus could have been engineered.
While Redfield comments have sparked fierce debate, the former CDC director’s clout adds weight to ongoing discussions about the origins of COVID-19 and the possible role of biodefense research in its development.
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Wow, what a time lag.
This ” news” was reported YEARS ago that Facci authorized the development of CV19 domestically, but Obama said way too dangerous, so Faucci paid the Chinese govt almost $4Million to do more R&D at the wohan lab
Of course, MSM called it a conspiracy theory but the grant info was in n the NIHI website for quite sometime until TSHTF
Chickens coming home to roost. Let’s hope justice will be survey for this treason
LOOK, over there, LOOK over here, but just don’t watch the White House and Deep State operatives that’s about to create World War III to get the nukes falling in order to stay in power..
More lies
Whenever a biological weapon is produced, the first protocol is to produce an antidote to protect those who produced the weapon. So where is the antidote? We did find out during the pandemic that ivermectin cures the problem, but the establishment did not want that to be exposed, lest the health and political establishment lose power over the population. When the breakout hit in my area… I used a preventative, oregano oil, which is an anti-viral, as well as anti-bacterial, and anti-fungal. I am now 70 years old and I was not phased in the least about the pandemic because I was protected. I also did not follow any of the protocols because there were no laws in place to enforce! In short, we were lied to by all the so-called “authorities.” By the way, I was informed 10 years prior to that pandemic that it was slated for 2010, not 2020! Always remember… anything political is planned… FDR, and the government must lie to protect itself, an old quote stated before I graduated high school.
” the former CDC director’s clout adds weight to ongoing discussions”
How ? bunch of claims without producing any evidence.
Or is this like Adam Schiff ” I have secret evidence”
Since ground zero was in Wuhan does that mean we inserted it there after we “Engineered it? I do think “Falsie” supplied funds for the research, despite his denials. The tellis he changes the words to make it technically correct!