Some have suggested the deadly disease was leaked from a Chinese lab in Wuhan.
Fauci said a fair, open investigation is needed to determine the real source of the pandemic.
Dr. Anthony Fauci says scientists and researchers should keep an open mind about the theory that COVID-19 was leaked from a Chinese lab, though he reiterated that it is more likely the deadly disease first spread from an animal to a person.
In some emails from April 2020, he and National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins discussed the theory that the coronavirus may have originated in a laboratory in China.
Ranger Greg Francek discovered a petrified tree that s million of years old in northern California. East Bay Municipal Utility District
The rock wasn t a rock at all, but a petrified tree that was millions of years old. One end of the tree was partially exposed, and to my surprise I could see the tree rings, Francek said.
The land Francek was patrolling is east of the San Francisco Bay he has monitored watershed land for California s East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) as a naturalist for more than a decade. Francek knew he d come across something special, so he called paleontologist Russell Shapiro at California State University, Chico.