The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Oct. 6 hosted a scientist who is a close ally of Dr. Anthony Fauci and coauthored a 2020 paper that said COVID-19 did not come from a laboratory.
Kristian Andersen, a professor of immunology and microbiology at Scripps Research, told NIH researchers during the talk that COVID-19 likely came from an animal, possibly raccoon dogs, at a wet market in Wuhan, China.
He pointed to research he and others conducted, including work by Tulane University professor Robert Garry and British scientist Andrew Rambaut, as well as photographs taken by Edward Holmes, an Australian researcher, according to slides Andersen released after the talk. The talk itself has not been made public….