Why did senior U.S. Government Covid adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci and other leading scientists seek to quash any suggestion of a lab leak origin back in early 2020 and ensure it was written off as a conspiracy theory? That's what many people are.
We don't know whether Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli created the COVID-19 virus or whether it was released, accidentally or not, by the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
EXCLUSIVE: Dr Peter Palese, a microbiologist i in New York, signed a letter claiming Covid could only have been natural in origin and to suggest otherwise creates fear, rumours, and prejudice .