Dr. Birx on Lab Leak Theory: We’re Not Doing Enough to Prevent This from Happening Again

BIRX: "You know, I think it’s important that a group gets together of scientists, particular molecular virologists, and moves past the politics and say what do we really know? What do we know now about this virus, how it mutates, how it spreads through humans, what do we know that China was doing and it makes total sense that China was working on a vaccine and growing these – growing these viruses in tissue culture. That changes the virus over time. That’s what you do in the laboratory. And so it makes sense and I think really getting people to get – I know we are never going to get the data from China. China has not been transparent. We saw in that their recent outbreak. They weren’t telling how many people were succumbing to Covid. That’s been going on three years now and we have to be very clear. China they did not learn from sars, they were not transparent with Covid-19 in 2019, they are not transparent today in 2023, and we just have to understand that we are not going to change China’s behavior and put into place processes and accountability across the globe to ensure other countries are protected.