Exclusive: Former NIH Head Francis Collins
Admits Covid Origins Not Settled, No Science
to Back Social-Distance Guidance
Posted By: Dreadnought, 5/16/2024 10:14:13 AM
The nation’s top public health official during the Covid-19 pandemic admitted that the origins of the coronavirus remain up for debate, the lab-leak theory is not a conspiracy, and that there was no scientific evidence to support the government’s social-distancing guidance. Former National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins testified behind closed-doors earlier this year and made those admissions to the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, according to a transcript and accompanying subcommittee memo provided to National Review. “Do you recall science or evidence that supported the six-foot distance?”
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