Dr. Robert Redfield spills the beans in interview with NewsNation.
Guest post by Leo Hohmann
Former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield provided a chilling commentary on the latest bird flu outbreak in a recent interview with NewsNation, suggesting that what we are seeing may not be due to a virus found in the natural environment but one augmented by human manipulation in a biolab.
In other words, this could be Covid 2.0, only worse, with a genetically modified pathogen tailored to spread specifically among humans.
Redfield told NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas that he’s worried about bird flu, because “Right now, it takes five amino acid changes for it to be effectively infecting humans. That’s a pretty heavy species barrier – but this virus is already in 26 mammal species, as you most recently saw cattle. But in the laboratory, I could make it highly infectious for humans in just months.”
