Former CDC Director: COVID-19 Escaped From Wuhan Virology Lab

Robert Redfield, MD, Director, then-United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies during a U.S. Senate Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Hearing to examine COVID-19, focusing on an update on the federal response at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., Sept. 23, 2020. Alex Edelman/Pool via Reuters

Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield said he believes the CCP virus, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, originated from a Chinese laboratory.

“It’s not unusual for respiratory pathogens that are being worked on in a laboratory to infect a laboratory worker,” Redfield said in an interview with CNN on Friday before adding that his comments are “my opinion.”