Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said on Newsmax Saturday that COVID-19 resulted from U.S.-funded gain-of-function research rather than a natural spillover event.

Redfield, now a senior fellow for biosecurity and public health policy at the Heritage Foundation, discussed disagreements within the White House COVID-19 task force on “Saturday Agenda,” reiterating his long-held belief about the virus’s origins.

“I always felt as a virologist that this virus did not go from nature into man and become one of the most infectious viruses that we have behind measles,” Redfield said.

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