Fauci: Lab Leak Could Still Be Considered as Coming from Natural Origins

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FAUCI: "That's a very good question, Jim. So, one of the things that people maybe don't fully appreciate, that all of the intelligence agencies agree unanimously, that this was not engineered. Namely, they didn't deliberately do this to make a bioweapon. Everybody agrees with that. No matter what your prior thoughts were, everybody agrees with that. A lab leak could be that someone was out in the wild, maybe looking for different types of viruses in bats, got infected, went into a lab and was being studied in the lab and then came out of the lab. But if that's the definition of a lab leak, Jim, then that still is a natural occurrence. The other possibility is someone takes the virus from the environment that doesn't actually spread very well in humans and manipulates it a bit, and accidentally it escapes or accidentally infects someone and then you get an outbreak. Those are the possibilities when you're talking about lab leaks."