Ronny Jackson on COVID-19 originated from a lab-related …

Ronny Jackson

U.S. Representative from Texas and former White House physician

So, from February 1 to February 16, are you telling me that you gathered all of this additional information? Because we know what your initial hypothesis was, or your initial conclusions were to start with before--you gathered every bit of this new additional information which we don't know exactly what it was or where it came from, you completely changed your hypothesis, you collaborated with your co-authors, and you wrote the Proximal Origin paper all in that period of time? I just want to know--my time is up, but I just want you to know that sounds completely ridiculous to the American people, and it's completely in step with what a lot of people think is going on here, is that Dr. Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins realized that they had been implicated in the production or in the creation of this virus, and they were doing everything they could, including get at both of you to come on board as tools, or vehicles, to undermine that theory.

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Ronny Jackson, remarks in "Investigating the Proximal Origin of a Cover-Up," House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic hearing, July 11, 2023.

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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover

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AI Verified The quote is directly on the statement’s core issue. In context, Jackson is questioning witnesses who say COVID came from nature, then argues that Fauci and Collins were implicated in the virus’s "production" or "creation" and were trying to "undermine that theory"—i.e., the lab-origin theory. That makes a pro-lab-incident stance substantially more likely than the alternatives. ([govinfo.gov](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-118hhrg53002/html/CHRG-118hhrg53002.htm)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified He says the witnesses' rapid shift to the natural-origin paper sounds "completely ridiculous" and suggests Fauci and Collins were trying to "undermine that theory" that they were implicated in the virus's "production" or "creation." That strongly implies support for a lab-related origin rather than natural spillover, even though he couches it as what "a lot of people think." ([govinfo.gov](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-118hhrg53002/html/CHRG-118hhrg53002.htm)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified The official GovInfo HTML transcript of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic hearing "Investigating the Proximal Origin of a Cover-Up," dated July 11, 2023, contains this passage verbatim at lines 2297-2317, spoken as "Dr. Jackson." The same transcript lists "Ronny Jackson, Texas" among the members present, so the quote is authentic, correctly attributed to Ronny Jackson, and the provided source URL does contain it. ([govinfo.gov](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-118hhrg53002/html/CHRG-118hhrg53002.htm)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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