Francis S. Collins

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Physician-geneticist who served as Director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health from 2009 to 2021.

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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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The scientific evidence to date indicates that the virus is likely the result of viral evolution in nature, potentially jumping directly to humans or through an unidentified intermediary animal host.
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