WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s top infectious disease official urged lawmakers during a hearing on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic to ban research that enhances a pathogen’s ability to spread or cause disease.
Robert Redfield, who served as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the outset of the health crises, has long maintained that COVID was likely caused by a lab accident in Wuhan, China.
“I’m of the point of view that we don’t need to make pathogens more transmissible or more pathogenic in order to get ahead of the curve,” Redfield testified Wednesday to a House subcommittee on the pandemic.
