As if it was heresy on radio or television if i paid attention to the idea that it came from the virology lab instead of the wet market. look where we are today. this week in an interview it was saud he believes it came from a lab leak. i think part of the problem is that some of the people initially, not you, but some of the other people speaking in favor of a lab leak were talking about it as a bioweapon. they were suggesting that this was somehow intentional on the part of china or scientists or something ask creating this pathogen. that was wrong. in fact, all the intelligence agencies, including the fbi and energy department have said they do not believe there was intentionality behind it. that s part of the problem. lab leak, now we are saying it could be an accidental lab leak versus it could be animal spillover. and i also think part of the issue is china has been totally wrong in not allowing independent investigations, but
Bio weapon suggesting this was somehow intentional on the part of china or scientists, or something, in creating this pathogen. that was wrong, and in fact, all the intelligence agencies, including fbi and energy department have said they do not believe there was intention behind it. i think that s part of the problem that the lab leak, we are saying it could be an accidental lab leak versus animal spillover. i also think part of the issue is, of course, china has been totally wrong in not allowing independent investigations, but to this point, i really don t see what level of evidence will have to be produced in order to convince both sides of this that they are wrong. i don t know if we will ever come to a definitive answer, because people are so doug in and how they think about the origin of covid . so what i m proposing, i just wrote a washington post column about this, we can think both are possible grade don t stop investigating, move forward. we need to prevent the next pandemic.