Former CDC Director Robert Redfield: Gain-of Function Research Likely ‘Caused the Greatest Pandemic Our World Has Seen’

ormer Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Dr. Robert Redfield testified on Wednesday that gain-of-function research has never produced a treatment or a life-saving vaccine that he’s aware of and “probably caused the greatest pandemic our world has seen.”

The doctor also said he was kept out of the loop when NIAID Director Anthony Fauci and other virologists were formulating their talking points on the origin of COVID-19.

Redfield and three other expert witnesses appeared before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic to discuss the origins of COVID-19.

Redfield, a virologist, was director of the CDC from 2018 to 2021, and served on former President Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force throughout 2020.

“Based on my initial analysis of the data, I came to believe, and I still believe today, that it indicates that COVID-19 more likely was the result of an accidental lab leak than a result of an accidental lab leak than a result of a natural spillover event,” Redfield said in his opening statement. Fauci and his cohorts maintained that the virus “spilled over” from animals sold at the Huanan market in Wuhan.

“While many believe that gain-of function research is critical to get ahead of viruses by developing vaccines, in this case, I believe it was the exact opposite—unleashing a new virus on the world without any means of stopping it and resulting in the deaths of millions of people,” Redfield testified.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) questioned Redfield about an email Dr. Fauci received two days after Coronavirus task force was established. In the email, Dr. Kristian Andersen, a professor in the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at Scripps Research, said the virus looked engineered.

“The unusual features of the virus make up a really small part of the genome (<0.1%) so one has to look really closely at all the sequences to see that some of the features (potentially) look engineered,” Andersen wrote to Fauci on Jan. 31, 2020.

Jordan asked Redfield if Fauci shared that email with him.

“As a member of the task force and head of the CDC, did he share that email with you?” Jordan asked.

Redfield answered, “no,” Fauci did not share the email.

The next day, on February 1, Jordan pointed out, virologist Dr. Robert F. Garry of Tulane University sent Fauci another email saying, “I don’t know how this happens in nature but it would be easy to do in a lab.”

“Did he share that email with you?” the congressman asked.

Redfield again responded that Fauci did not share the email.

“You didn’t see either one of those emails, even though you’re head of the CDC? Even though you’re on the Coronavirus task force that had been formed just two days earlier?” asked Jordan.

“No,” Redfield replied.

Jordan noted that only three days later, after a conference call with Fauci, Dr. Andersen and Dr. Garry changed their position 180 degrees. In a widely cited article in the journal Nature Medicine, the pair declared flatly, “Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.

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