Fauci calls on China to release medical records of Wuhan researchers

Jordan Williams
The Hill
Fri, 04 Jun 2021 08:01 UTC

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Dr. Anthony Fauci

Anthony Fauci is calling on China to release medical records of researchers at a laboratory in Wuhan, China, that reportedly became sick with COVID-19-like symptoms prior to the pandemic.

In an interview with the Financial Times published Friday, Fauci said the records could help resolve the debate over the origins of the virus, particularly if it was the result of a laboratory leak.

"I would like to see the medical records of the three people who are reported to have got sick in 2019," Fauci told the news outlet. "Did they really get sick, and if so, what did they get sick with?"

Fauci also called for the records of miners that got sick years ago after entering a cave. According to The Washington Post, six miners became sick with a viral-induced pneumonia after entering a bat cave.

The nation's top infectious diseases expert said, "It is entirely conceivable that the origins of Sars-Cov-2 was in that cave and either started spreading naturally or went through the lab."

The theory that COVID-19 may have leaked from a lab has gained new attention in recent weeks. The Wall Street Journal reported last month that several scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick with flu-like symptoms in November 2019, before the pandemic spread.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said late last month that the intelligence community isn't exactly sure how the virus has transmitted but has "coalesced around two likely scenarios: either it emerged naturally from human contact with infected animals or it was a laboratory accident."

But "while two elements of the IC [intelligence community] lean toward the former scenario and one leans more toward the latter — each with low or moderate confidence — the majority of elements within the IC do not believe there is sufficient information to assess one to be more likely than the other."

President Biden has directed the intelligence community to "redouble their efforts" to come up with a conclusion on the virus's origins.

Comment: More from Breitbart:

Former President Donald Trump demanded Thursday China pay ten trillion dollars in reparations to the United States for coronavirus deaths and destruction, as the country spent $13 trillion battling the virus.

"China should pay Ten Trillion Dollars to America, and the World, for the death and destruction they have caused!" Trump wrote.

"Now everyone, even the so-called 'enemy,' are beginning to say that President Trump was right about the China Virus coming from the Wuhan Lab. The correspondence between Dr. Fauci and China speaks too loudly for anyone to ignore," he continued.

According to the Committee for Responsible Government, the United States' taxpayers have spent $13 trillion fighting the flu from China.

As of June 3, 595,779 American citizens have died from the Chinese coronavirus.

The United States currently owes China, according to the U.S. Treasury Department in June of 2020, $1.07 trillion in debt obligations.

The Chinese Communist Party has not taken responsibility for the coronavirus pandemic that killed millions around the world.