Redfield immediately offered to send a team of specialists to test Wuhan lab workers for antibodies and help investigate, he told Vanity Fair. They were tasked with investigating the Wuhan 'lab leak' theory, suggesting that the virus was man-made rather than naturally evolved. Redfield told Vanity Fair that the U.S. investigators could easily, in January 2020, discount the Wuhan lab as a source of the outbreak by testing researchers there for antibodies. The WHO team is seen arriving at the Wuhan lab on February 3, 2021. At the time, the Wuhan lab leak was widely considered a 'fringe theory' at best, in favor of transmission from an animal to a human.

Source: Daily Mail June 04, 2021 01:26 UTC