Covid, Fauci: “I’m not convinced that the virus developed naturally”

Anthony Fauci argues for an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus by saying he “is not convinced” that it developed naturally. Responding to a question during a televised interview, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious said he believes that “we must continue to investigate what has happened in China until we can find out, to the best of our ability, what it is. success”. Read also “Certainly the people who have investigated say that it probably emerged from an animal reserve and then infected individuals – he continued referring to the hypothesis about the origins of the virus – but it could also be something different and we have to find out”. “This is the reason – he concluded – why I say I am absolutely in favor of any investigation into the origin of the virus.” Fauci’s statements come after the Wall Street Journal revealed the existence of an intelligence report According to which three researchers from the Wuhan virology institute in November 2019 were hospitalized with symptoms attributable to Covid, news that China has denied. The Chinese ‘Global Times’ spoke of an ” absolute lie ” citing the director of the Wuhan institute, Yuan Zhiming, while the spokesman for the Beijing Foreign Ministry, Zhao Lijian, spoke at a press conference of ” a report not truthful ”. According to China, these are conspiracy theories put in place to divert public attention from the American handling of the pandemic.