Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday did not dismiss a theory that the coronavirus originated in a Chinese laboratory, saying he has “a completely open mind about that, despite people saying that I don’t.”
However, the retiring infectious disease expert added that the evidence still points to a bat most likely transmitted the disease to humans.
“If you look at the preponderance of evidence that has been accumulated by international group of highly respected evolutionary virologists, they feel, and they’ve written peer reviewed papers on that, that the evidence strongly points to this being a natural occurrence of a jumping of a virus from a bat to an animal species to human, hasn’t been definitively proven.