Gottlieb says COVID origins may never be known, urges intelligence gathering to spot future pandemics
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As officials seek to understand how the coronavirus pandemic emerged, one expert says that without more information from China, the world may never know.
"Either we find the intermediate host -- the animal that spread COVID -- or there's a whistleblower inside China. Or someone close to this, who knows that this came out of a lab, comes forward, defects, goes overseas, or we intercept some communication that we shouldn't have had access to. Absent something like that, we're not going to be able to answer this question" says Scott Gottlieb, who served as F.D.A. Commissioner under former President Trump.
"This is going to be a battle of competing narratives," Gottlieb told "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan in an exclusive interview airing Sunday about his upcoming book: "Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic".
