Ex-CDC Director Throws Fauci Under the Bus “This [COVID] virus was not of natural origin. It was an act of scientific ARROGANCE.” The “wet market theory” that Fauci pushed hard in 2020 was, according to Dr. Redfield, a HOAX. Redfield knows this because, in early 2020, the Chinese CDC director, George Gao, told him, “Bob, we have hundreds of cases, and it [COVID] has nothing to do with the wet market.” After doing his own analysis as a clinical virologist, Redfield told Fauci, “This virus was way too infectious in humans right out of the gate,” leading him to conclude it was made in a lab. But Fauci dismissed Redfield’s concerns, telling him his “premise was wrong,” which frustrated Redfield. “I thought that Tony should embrace scientific investigation. But Tony only considered a single hypothesis: spillover, spillover, spillover, spillover,” Redfield lamented.