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Former CDC director
This was a narrative [...] do everything they could to support it [...] to negate discussion about the possibility that this came from a lab.
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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AI Verified In context, Redfield is contrasting a promoted wet-market/natural-origin account with suppressed discussion of a lab origin, and nearby text says he did not view bat-to-human emergence as scientifically plausible. That makes the quote directly relevant to the lab-vs-zoonotic statement and gives a determinable stance signal. ([dailysignal.com](https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/03/08/6-takeaways-as-house-covid-19-panel-investigates-china-lab-leak/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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AI Verified The quote frames the wet-market explanation as a deliberately pushed story meant to shut down lab-origin discussion, and the source context says Redfield thought the outbreak did not begin at the market and that a natural bat-to-human jump was not scientifically plausible. That makes him substantially more likely to support the lab-origin side of the statement. ([dailysignal.com](https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/03/08/6-takeaways-as-house-covid-19-panel-investigates-china-lab-leak/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago

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AI Verified The submitted Daily Signal page dated March 8, 2023 contains a fuller sentence attributed to Robert Redfield that begins "This was a narrative..." and ends "...came from a lab." The official Congress.gov transcript of the same March 8, 2023 House hearing corroborates that Redfield delivered the same statement in testimony, with only minor wording differences in the official transcript ("any discussion" / "laboratory"), so the submitter’s ellipsized version is authentic, correctly attributed, and present at the submitted URL. ([dailysignal.com](https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/03/08/6-takeaways-as-house-covid-19-panel-investigates-china-lab-leak/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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