Former CDC Director Robert Redfield Supports the Wuhan Lab-Leak Theory Former Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director Robert Redfield explained why he thinks the CCP virus came from a Chinese lab (the Wuhan Institute of Virology or WIV), echoing support for the theory that was first dismissed as having no scientific merit and not worth investigating. The former CDC director sat down with Dr. Marc Siegel, a professor at NYU and Fox News contributor, to discuss the pandemic’s origins. The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the government’s voice of scientific authority on the pandemic before and during the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci, has long argued that the virus came from an animal market in Wuhan China and not a lab leak.