Fauci: It Is ‘Molecularly Impossible’ for Viruses Researched by Wuhan Lab to Lead to Covid-19

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FAUCI: "We knew what the risk was and what the oversight is. Certainly, they should have put their progress report in in a timely manner, no denial of that, and there will be administrative consequences of that. But one of the things that gets mixed up in this, George, and it really needs to be made clear to the American public. There’s all of this concern about what's gain of function or what's not, with the implication that that research led to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, which, George, unequivocally, anybody that knows anything about viral biology and phylogeny of viruses know that it is molecularly impossible for those viruses that were worked on to turn into SARS-CoV-2 because they were distant enough molecularly that no matter what you did to them, they could never, ever become SARS-CoV-2. And yet, when people talk about gain of function, they make that implication, which I think is unconscionable to do, to say, 'Well, maybe that research led to SARS-CoV-2.' You can ask any person of good faith, who’s a virologist, and they will tell you, absolutely clearly, that that would be molecularly impossible. So, things are getting conflated, George, that should not be conflated."