Fauci DEFENDS China and says it s far fetched to think they d deliberately engineer something to kill themselves - as he doubles down on animal origins of COVID and dismisses out-of-context smoking gun emails
Dr. Anthony Fauci made his comments in an interview with NewsNation Now anchor Leland Vittert on The Donlon Report
He double downed during a Thursday morning CNN interview
But he admitted he can t guarantee everything that is going on in the Wuhan lab
Fauci said Trump supporters resent him because they don t understand science
Emails show he was warned at the start COVID was possibly engineered in a lab
Stanford University microbiologist David Relman and the University of Washington virologist Jesse Bloom organized the letter
It was published in the journal Science and signed by 18 prominent biologists from universities like Harvard and Cambridge
Claims that the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology have been laughed off as conspiracy theories
The researchers suggest in the letter that the hypotheses cannot be ruled out until there is more evidence
The letter reads that yet more investigation is still needed to determine the origin of the pandemic