Global – 176,000,000/3,800,000; USA – 33,300,000/600,000
● Bob Redfield is out there spouting incorrect information saying that he feels strongly that this was a virus that leaked from a laboratory. The basis of his saying this is that he feels that the virus was so well adapted to humans right from the beginning that it had to have
leaked from a lab. Any respectable virologist would know that this is total nonsense since the virus clearly could have jumped species as a less efficient spreader and causer of serious disease and had been circulating in the human population beneath the radar screen gathering efficiency in transmission and pathogenesis until it was finally recognized in the middle of December of 2019 when many people were getting seriously ill. This is the way viruses evolve from nature. In fact, we are still seeing that to this day in what we are currently experiencing in that variants are developing greater capability of spreading and gaining even greater pathogenesis. Another example of Bob Redfield being dead wrong. I am surprised and disappointed that he is out there spouting such nonsense. I guess that he wants to feel relevant now that he is no longer CDC Director.
● Email of support fro Michel Kazatchkine:
Jun 16, 2021
Dr. Fauci’s released records hold 1 diary entry and 1 email filed under Wednesday, June 16, 2021, from the Tony's Diary Package. 515 words in total, reproduced below exactly as released. The diary text appears on pp. 718–719 of 2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf.
Email on this day1
TonyWednesday, June 16, 2021 at 9:54 AMFull thread
Dear Cliff,
Hope you are well. As many these days, I am looking forward very much to America being back in global / multilateral health! As many many people around the world, I feel deeply sorry and frustrated about the attacks on
Tony.
I know that his box is full.
That is why I allowed myself to use your mail to convey him a message of friendship and support.
Warm greetings
Professor Michel Kazatchkine
Special Advisor to the Joint United Nations Program on AIDS (UNAIDS) in Eastern Europe and Central Asia Senior Fellow, Global Health Center, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
PRESS: CBS “This Morning”; ITV (UK TV); Interview with Alison Young of USA Today on lab-leak hypothesis; Interview with Yahoo Life; Did White House digital team PSA at NIH; New York Times Sway Podcast with Kara Swisher
Very Important piece in Foreign Policy by Justin Ling:
The Lab Leak Theory Doesn’t Hold Up
The rush to find a conspiracy around the COVID-19 pandemic’s origins is driven by narrative, not evidence. By Justin Ling
Quote from the article below:
And what about RaTG13, the virus that Wade and Baker argue is so similar to COVID-19 that it would only need some tuneups? In a statement from April 2020, Edward Holmes—an evolutionary biologist and virologist at the University of Sydney—noted that “the level of genome sequence divergence between SARS-CoV-2 and RaTG13 is equivalent to an average of 50 years (and at least 20 years) of evolutionary change
The Washington Post:
Two weeks later, Tucker Carlson’s attack on
Fauci has quietly collapsed
The News Corp. building on 6th Avenue, home to Fox News, the
New York Post and the Wall Street Journal, on March 20, 2019, in New York. (Kevin Hagen/Getty Images)
By Philip Bump
Historical record of A.S. Fauci - Part 4
Correspondents named on this day3
Matched by surname against the 108 correspondents in the release, so a common name may match more than the person intended. See the whole of 2021 as a calendar.