Fauci believes COVID-19 had time to 'adapt in the wild' in early days
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Fauci believes that natural adaptation of the virus is "more likely" than the theory that it escaped from a lab.
Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to President Biden, believes that the time between first infection and first intervention allowed the virus to mutate at a reasonable and natural pace. "It's entirely conceivable that it was spreading considerably for weeks, if not months, before we recognized it at the end of December, giving it plenty of time to adapt to a human," Fauci told CBS' "Face the Nation." "The other theory that people have is that somehow it did that in a lab and it accidentally escaped." "I mean, those are just varying opinions," he added. "I think the most likely one that in nature, in the wild, it adapted itself."More Related News