the report dismissed the possibility that the virus was the result of a lab accident. but the organization s own chief questioned that, saying the theory needs further investigation because, quote, i do not believe that this assessment was extensive enough. dr. tedros said the dismissing of the lab theory was premature. he s the director of the w.h.o. to have that criticism from one of his own studies, that really caught my attention. that s his prerogative. that s the director general of w.h.o. we re the people on the ground who write the report and submit it for him to look at and for the public to see. we did our job and now he s doing his job. critics say that job was seriously flawed from the outset. was it an investigation? its official title was joint study, which is very important, because if it s a joint study, it s a collaborative study between the w.h.o. and the
about this? have you reached your open conclusions? well, i guess most of these emerging infectious diseases have come about through natural origins, a jump from animals to humans, 75% have. just statistically, i think you would sort of lean that way. what s puzzling, jim, and you re a political reporter, i m a medical reporter, but you can disentangle politics in anything these days. if they said, it didn t leak from a lab, let s clear this up, they would have allowed an investigation to really take place. and yet they didn t. i think it just raises a lot of suspicions. so we still can t rule out the lab theory, and i get into some of the specifics as to why that is still very much on the table tonight. there s politics and medicine, medicine and politics these days. one of these days we ll separate the two, sanjay, hopefully very soon. dr. gupta, looking forward to
chain as not being gain of function. what was. let me finish. you take an animal virus and increase transability to humans you are saying that s not gain of function research. that is correct. senator paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly. brian: really? that must have felt good at the time. now the intercept though has a report out. they had 900 pages they finally got out and details the work of echo health alliance used federal money to fund the coronavirus research at the wuhan lab. the bat coronavirus grant provided echo health alliance with 3.1 million, including 599,000 for the wuhan institute of virology who can forget that? forget about political hacks and senator rand paul and republicans and democrats, the intercept which by the way went out of their way to call anybody who thought the lab theory was valid was folly now has changed their tune after they got these documents.
they don t believe it was developed as a bio-weapon and most believe with low confidence that coronavirus was not genetically engineer. a chinese foreign ministry official dismissed the lab leak theory. it s only fair that the u.s., [inaudible]. this will invite an investigation into their labs. the chinese said the pandemic originated in a u.s. government laboratory in maryland. even world health organization officials question these commence. it s a contradiction. if you are saying that the lab theory is a nonstarter from the chinese perspective. now we need to look at labs in other countries.
they shall do their turn and invite an investigation into their labs. it s a contradiction if you are saying the lab theory is a nonstarter from a chinese perspective. but we need to looks at labs in other countries. bret: the chinese trying to turn the tables on the u.s. saying the investigation pointing to the wuhan lab opens the doors to china for them to go into labs inside the u.s. trey gowdy, this covid origins report is not saving. it satisfying. it comes to no conclusion. a number of intel agencies point to that lab and they didn t at the begining. this is the way my sources in the intelligence community explained it to me. all of the circumstantial