Former CDC director Robert Redfield received death threats for lab-leak hypothesis
https://www.rebelnews.com/former_cdc_dir...leak_hypothesis
June 04, 2021


Robert Redfield, the former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says that received death threats for positing that the COVID-19 novel coronavirus was produced in a Chinese lab.

Redfield, who led the CDC under Trump, was instrumental in Trump’s Operation Warp Speed to develop and deliver vaccines for the deadly pandemic. Redfield hypothesized earlier this March that the novel coronavirus may have been bio-engineered at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, in the city where the disease first appeared. His hypothesis met fierce resistance from politicians, the media, and other scientists.

According to a report in Vanity Fair on Thursday, those opposed to the lab-leak hypothesis did so on the grounds that it was “racist” to even suggest that the Chinese government was responsible for developing the virus, as well as referring to COVID-19 as the “China Virus” due to its origin in China.

At the height of the pandemic, former President Donald Trump’s attempts to hold China accountable were shot down by the media as being racially biased against the Chinese.

In the early days of the pandemic-- excerpt, rest at link above --