- In April 2020, he cited a study that found the virus’s mutations are “consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human.”
- “There was a study recently,” Fauci told reporters on April 17, 2020, when asked if it was possible that virus came from a Chinese lab, “where a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences… in bats as they evolve and the mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now is totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human.
- “So, the paper will be available. I don’t have the authors right now, but we can make it available to you,” Fauci said.
