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Part I of Dr. Marc Siegel s interview with the ex-CDC director, on The Story
Dr. Robert R. Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the final years of the Trump administration was interviewed for Fox News exclusively by medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel.
During the interview, Redfield spoke of his longstanding concern about gain-of-function virus research that some observers say was the source of the initial spread of the coronavirus pandemic beginning in Wuhan, China.
Siegel asked about Dr. Shi Zhengli, dubbed the Bat Lady of Wuhan, who has done such research on bats as a virus vector, as well as U.S. scientist Dr. Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
By all accounts, Dr. Rochelle Walensky is a fierce advocate and an empathetic scientist. But C.D.C. advice must be better attuned to the real world, critics say.
Robert Redfield, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says he received death threats after he publicly said he believed the coronavirus “escaped” from a lab in Wuhan, China. “Certainly a lab-based origin is one possibility,” Dr Walensky told CNBC in May. “I was threatened and ostracized because I proposed another hypothesis,” Mr Redfield told Vanity Fair in a story published on Thursday. “I expected it from.
Candace Black Werth has traveled to Mexico four times during the pandemic. She said she’s felt safe during her frequent trips to San José del Cabo and that the businesses and resorts she’s stayed at took precautions to keep guests and staff safe from COVID-19. However, Werth a TPG reader said that getting …