Dr. Anthony Fauci doubted that China was giving the world accurate data regarding their coronavirus death toll.
Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Fox News that he doesn’t believe China has handed over all of its data on the coronavirus. He also doubted that China, which has a population of more than 1.3 billion people, had only 3,346 coronavirus deaths.
“I think any of us who have been dealing with this now for the last few months don’t feel confident at all that we have all of the data of the originally infected individuals, how long there were people in the circulation, or even now, how many deaths there really are in China,” Fauci said.
He continued, “That number is really rather a low number. That number surprises me that that number is so low. But then again, you know, it is what it is. It’s behind us. Let’s move ahead and address our own problem.”
A recent report from Fox News revealed that U.S. officials have “increasing confidence” that the coronavirus was accidentally carried out of a virology lab when the outbreak began in Wuhan, China. If that is confirmed, it would overturn the narrative from the Chinese Communist Party that the virus first infected humans in a wet market after someone consumed an infected bat.
