Prominent Trump administration coronavirus task force member Adm. Brett Giroir testified Tuesday the “most likely” origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is an accidental lab leak in Wuhan.
“I assess that the most likely origin was an accidental infection of laboratory personnel from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, with secondary transmission to the local population and subsequent spread to hundreds of millions of people around the world,” Giroir told House Republicans during a hearing by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis.
Giroir’s opening statement conflicted with the initial China narrative of animal to human spread at the Wuhan wet market, which was just miles away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, noting evidence now shows “Wuhan wet market was a site of secondary spread.”
“There is now an increasing body of circumstantial evidence pointing to a lab leak origin of the virus,” Giroir, who was in charge of testing on the Trump White House’s COVID-19 task force, added. “The bottom line is: I believe it’s just too much of a coincidence that a worldwide pandemic caused by a novel bat coronavirus that cannot be found in nature started just a few miles away from a secretive laboratory doing potentially dangerous research on bat coronaviruses.
“Sometimes, the most obvious explanation is indeed the correct one.”
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{Matzav.com}
