Francis Collins, the longtime, respected director of the National Institute of Health, went on Fox TV to address the latest Wuhan Lab Leak brouhaha. Asked about the leak possibility, he said: “That doesn’t fit with what we know about this particular viral genome. I don’t think we know what happened in Wuhan. It is possible there was a lab leak. But again, that’s an extraordinary claim. What we need then is to have an evidence-based, expert-driven investigation.” This is exactly what the US intelligence community does NOT intend to do, but only to examine intelligence reports and draw conclusions.
In a separate interview with Defense One on Wednesday, Collins said: “Far and away, the most likely origin is a natural zoonotic pathway from bats to some unidentified intermediate host to humans. But the possibility that such a naturally evolved virus might have also been under study at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and reached residents of Wuhan—and ultimately the rest of the world—as the result of a lab accident has never been adequately excluded.”
