Former CDC director Robert Redfield, an outspoken critic of Antony Fauci, believes COVID-19 had sinister origins. We know the NIH was funding gain-of-function research under Fauci at a lab in Wuhan, China. However, Redfield believes the virus leaked from a domestic lab located at the University of North Carolina.
Redfield believes Dr. Ralph Baric was the mastermind behind the creation of the virus. Baric was among the first to alert government officials that SARS-CoV-2 was rapidly spreading. In January 2020, Baric told the government “had three months” before they would be faced with a deadly pandemic. He has spent his life studying coronaviruses, studying animal models to rest the efficacy of new treatments. Baric helped to develop remdesivir months before March 2020, and the FDA authorized its usage in May of that year.
The Biden Administration funded a study that claimed the origins of COVID-19 were not manmade. The virus somehow passed from human to animal and no individual or institution was responsible. As they told us from the beginning, Chinese peasants in Wuhan contracted the virus from consuming diseased bat meat. But skepticism remained. Then the narrative changed that there may have been an unintentional leak from the Wuhan lab and reports emerged that workers in the lab fell ill with the virus as early as 2019.
Theories about Baric’s role in creating the virus have been circulating for years. Senator Rand Paul has been adamant in finding those responsible for the “lab leak” and he questioned Baric’s role in front of US Congress. “For years, Dr. Ralph Baric, a virologist in the U.S., has been collaborating with Dr. Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Virology Institute, sharing his discoveries about how to create super-viruses,” Paul said on May 11, 2021. “This gain-of-function research has been funded by the NIH [National Institutes of Health].”
Baric himself did not deny the possibility of a lab leak, however, he insisted it originated in China where they have fewer restrictions on studying live viruses. Yet, he does not deny studying mRNA vaccines on mice at his lab in North Carolina and working closely with the Wuhan lab that he so frequently criticizes.
Redfield has consistently said that the COVID-19 virus was engineered. ‘I think he [Dr. Baric] probably helped create some of the original viral lines, but I can’t prove that. But he was very involved,” the former director said. Although he would not go as far as to say that the US framed China for leaking the virus, he said its original purpose was to be developed as a biodefense program and the US played a “substantial” role in its creation.
Under the incoming Trump Administration, Senator Paul and Robert F. Kennedy will certainly hold the NIH, USAID and the Department of Defense responsible for the pandemic. The world deserves to finally learn the truth behind the origins of the global pandemic that changed the course of history.