COVID-19 May Have Come From Chinese Laboratory, Dr. Fauci’s Former Boss Says

Dr. Francis Collins testified behind closed doors to a congressional panel.

Dr. Francis Collins speaks in Washington on Sept. 9, 2020. Michael Reynolds/Pool/Getty Images

COVID-19 may have come from a laboratory in China, a former National Institutes of Health (NIH) director said during recent closed-door congressional testimony.

Dr. Francis Collins, the NIH director until late 2021, said that the theory that COVID-19 came from a lab in Wuhan “is not a conspiracy theory,” according to the U.S. House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.