NIH Director Says Covid Origins Controversy Has ‘Nothing’ To Do with Resignation

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COLLINS: "No, it didn’t, Neil. I’m glad you’re asking because, of course, people are always sort of looking for some kind of cause and effect here. I want to absolutely assure you and anybody else listening, it had nothing to do with my decision. And I also want to say that while this is an important issue, that we need to understand what happened, how did this virus get started in China, that our funding of that research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology was a million miles away in terms of the genome of the virus that we're talking about. And to draw that connection is, frankly, absolutely not supportable by the data. And I do wish people would look more closely at that and recognize that that's not an area that will give us an answer to how SARS-CoV-2 got started."