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To: longnshort who wrote (1221968)	4/18/2020 12:41:36 PM
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JUST IN: FAUCI REJECTS CONSPIRACY THEORY CORONAVIRUS ENGINEERS IN CHINESE LAB businessinsider.com Dr. Anthony Fauci at the White House on Friday rejected a conspiracy theory that the novel coronavirus was created in a Chinese lab. Fauci, the nation's top expert on infectious disease, said the available evidence on the origins of the virus is "totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human."Fox News and Republican allies of President Donald Trump have been pushing the lab narrative in recent days, despite a lack of hard evidence to back it up. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top expert on infectious disease, on Friday, rejected a conspiracy theory that the novel coronavirus was created in and escaped a Chinese lab. At the daily White House press briefing, a reporter asked: "Mr. President, I wanted to ask Dr. Fauci: Could you address these suggestions or concerns that this virus was somehow manmade, possibly came out of a laboratory in China?" "There was a study recently that we can make available to you, where a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences there and the sequences in bats as they evolve. And the mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now is totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human," Fauci replied. He underscored in his remarks that studies of the virus' genome have strongly indicated that it was transmitted from an animal to a human rather than created or enhanced in a laboratory setting, as a review in a scientific journal found. "We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible," an analysis published in Nature Medicine in mid-March said. The study, led by computational biologist Kristian Andersen of the Scripps Research Institute in California, compared COVID-19 to the six other coronaviruses known to infect humans. The analysis explicitly states that the evidence shows SARS-CoV-2 "is not a purposefully manipulated virus." The US intelligence community has also been investigating whether the virus was collected by researchers and then accidentally leaked from a Chinese lab but has found no evidence to date backing it up, according to Politico, which cited multiple sources familiar with the matter. US officials reportedly raised issues about a Wuhan-based lab's security procedures in 2018, according to the Washington Post. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has also said that the origins of the virus appear to be linked to "a large seafood and live animal market, suggesting animal-to-person spread." But the president and his allies in the right-wing media continue promoting the theory that the virus escaped from a Chinese lab. "More and more, we're hearing the story, and we'll see," Trump said on Wednesday. Scientists and authorities have not come to a firm conclusion about where the animal-to-human transmission first occurred and what role the wet market may have played. Aaron Rupar ?@atrupar · Apr 15, 2020 Replying to @atrupar REPORTER: Why do we have 20 percent of the world's deaths from the coronavirus with only 4 percent of the population? TRUMP: "Well you don't know what you have. Do you think you're getting honest numbers from some of these countries? ... we report everything." Aaron Rupar ?@atrupar Trump suggests there's merit to a Fox News story about the novel coronavirus originating in a lab in China 564 3:48 PM - Apr 15, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 254 people are talking about this On Friday, when asked "how active" the investigation was into whether the virus escaped a lab in Wuhan, China, Trump said: "We are looking at it. A lot of people are looking at it. It seems to make sense." "A lot of strange things are happening, but there is a lot of investigation going on and we're going to find out," Trump added. JM Rieger ?@RiegerReport Replying to @RiegerReport Trump on Wuhan lab investigation: “We’re looking at it, a lot of people are looking at it. It seems to make sense. … There is a lot of investigation going on and we’re going to find out." 3 4:53 PM - Apr 17, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy See JM Rieger's other Tweets Fox News has been leading the charge on the Chinese lab conspiracy theoryMeanwhile, Fox News, the president's preferred TV network, has been pushing the lab narrative hard over the past week. "Sources believe coronavirus outbreak originated in Wuhan lab as part of China's efforts to compete with US," a report published on Wednesday and co-authored by Fox News anchor Bret Baier said. Along these lines, Trump's advisers and congressional allies have been hammering China in recent days, excoriating the Chinese government over its lack of transparency about coronavirus. GOP Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas — who has suggested the virus was developed in a Chinese "super-lab" — on Wednesday told Sean Hannity of Fox News that China "must be made to pay the price" if it's determined the virus came out of a Wuhan lab. Similarly, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday told Fox News: "We really need the Chinese Government to open up. They say they want to cooperate. One of the best ways they could find to cooperate would be to let the world in, to let the world's scientists know exactly how this came to be, exactly how this virus began to spread."

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BREAKING: Trump's Job Rating Slides; U.S. Satisfaction Tumbles news.gallup.com