Fauci says he still thinks nature, not Wuhan lab, ‘most likely’ origin for COVID-19

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The “most likely” origin for COVID-19 is in nature in the absence of any recent “concrete evidence” supporting the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis, according to President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, made the comments following a new report contending that some top officials in the Biden administration now view the accidental lab escape theory as being at least as plausible as the notion that it emerged in a natural transfer from animals to humans.

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