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Andy Meek
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In an interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci published around this time last year by National Geographic, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases strongly pushed back against the notion that the virus at the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic -- which as of the time of this writing has killed around 590,000 Americans -- was in all likelihood a naturally occurring virus. That it wasn't concocted in a lab, in other words, as some conspiracy theory adherents had started to suspect, nor was it the result of an accident of some kind originating inside China's Wuhan Institute of Virology (the so-called "lab leak" theory). "If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats, what's out there now is very, very strongly leaning toward this (virus) could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated -- the way the mutations have naturally evolved," Dr. Fauci told NatGeo. "A number of very qualified evolutionary biologists have said that everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that it evolved in nature and then jumped species."
Exactly 12 months later, however, Dr. Fauci is now the chief medical advisor for the Biden White House, and he now appears prepared to do a 180 on the origin of the coronavirus pandemic. By way of sharing something of a coronavirus update in recent days during a Poynter event, “United Facts of America: A Festival of Fact-Checking,” he gave the following answer after being asked about all of the different possibilities that could explain the origin of the COVID-19 virus. "There’s a lot of cloudiness around the origins of COVID-19 still, so I wanted to ask, are you still confident that it developed naturally?" PolitiFact’s Katie Sanders asked him. Needless to say, his answer has left many netizens and social media users aghast, especially since the prevailing response for a year now to anyone who simply wondered whether an accident of some kind could have caused the virus at the heart of the pandemic was treated with the same level of contempt you'd reserve for someone who thinks the earth is flat.
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