<p>A virus breaking out of a lab does not necessarily constitute a &#8220;lab leak,&#8221; Dr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anthony-fauci" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthony Fauci</a> contended in his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-blames-attacks-on-china-not-china-for-covid-origins-impasse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">latest argument</a> in favor of the natural origins theory for COVID.</p>
<p>In a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/24/magazine/dr-fauci-pandemic.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur" target="_blank" rel="noopener">newly published interview</a> with The New York Times, Fauci entertained the notion that COVID did emerge from a lab in Wuhan, China, while making the case that such a scenario would affirm his preferred theory of a &#8220;natural occurrence,&#8221; perhaps at a nearby wet market.</p>
<p>&#8220;If it’s not an engineered virus, what actually leaked from the lab?&#8221; Fauci said. &#8220;If it wasn’t an engineered virus, somebody went out into the field, got infected, came back to the lab and then spread it out to other people. That ain’t a lab leak, strictly speaking. That’s a natural occurrence.&#8221;</p>
<p>Fauci, a longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who has drawn <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/see-it-jim-jordan-goes-on-tear-against-dr-anthony-fauci-over-covid-origins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scrutiny over federal funding</a> for bat coronavirus research with ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, premised his hypothetical on an assertion about intelligence assessing the origins of the pandemic. &#8220;All of the intelligence groups agree that this was not an engineered virus,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>The comments elicited swift pushback on social media.</p>
<p>&#8220;Fauci lies even when the facts are in full view and the lies are obvious. He has no shame, and he has no decency,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1650883244588511235" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> Richard Ebright, a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/science/covid-lab-leak-burr-report.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">molecular biologist</a> at Rutgers University.</p>
<p>Ebright was reacting to Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin, who pointed out Fauci&#8217;s comments don&#8217;t square with <a href="https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/reports-publications-2021/item/2263-declassified-assessment-on-covid-19-origins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a declassified report</a> that was released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) in 2021.</p>
<p>&#8220;Fauci wrongly says all intel agencies &#8216;agree that this was not an engineered virus.&#8217; [ODNI] assessment says &#8216;most&#8217; assess [with] low confidence &#8216;probably&#8217; not engineered,&#8221; Rogin <a href="https://twitter.com/joshrogin/status/1650876864234151936" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>. &#8220;Fauci also wrongly says, even if it escaped the lab, &#8216;That ain’t a lab leak.&#8217; What?!&#8221;</p>
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<p>In recent months, news broke that fresh <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-intel-prompts-energy-dept-to-assess-covid-likely-leaked-from-wuhan-lab-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intelligence led the Energy Department</a> to assess with &#8220;low confidence&#8221; that the health crisis likely began with a lab leak. Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/covid-origins-part-2-hearing-wrap-up-intelligence-community-officials-provide-further-evidence-that-covid-19-originated-in-a-wuhan-lab/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified to Congress</a> last week that &#8220;a lab leak is the only explanation credibly supported by our intelligence, by science, and by common sense.&#8221;</p>
<p>Still, the White House declared in February there was no <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-rejects-u-s-assertion-that-covid-originated-from-lab-leak-fe15df0c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;consensus&#8221;</a> within the U.S. government about how the COVID pandemic began.</p>
<p>China rejects the lab leak theory, but reports about <a href="https://apnews.com/article/china-covid-origins-lab-leak-bc0a2eda898c22219e57921ac700d4ec" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beijing&#8217;s refusal to fully cooperate</a> with COVID inquiries underscore continued disagreement within the scientific community about how the virus could have <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8337" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jumped from animals to humans</a>.</p>
<p>Whatever the origin of the COVID pandemic may be, Fauci said &#8220;we should be strengthening whatever it takes to prevent both — to prevent a new natural occurrence or a new lab leak.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;If it’s a natural occurrence, for goodness’ sake, natural occurrences occur all the time. We should have been doing something about that,&#8221; Fauci said. &#8220;If it’s a lab leak, then we really should have been much, much more attentive to protocols and training and restrictions.&#8221;</p>

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