Former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield accused top U.S. scientists of orchestrating a cover-up to obscure COVID-19’s origins, suggesting they feared government oversight of controversial research practices, during an interview on Newsmax on Thursday.

Redfield alleged Thursday that a group of U.S. scientists deliberately sought to steer attention away from the Wuhan lab as the origin of COVID-19 to protect “critical” gain-of-function research from potential government regulation.

Appearing on “The Record With Greta Van Susteren,” Redfield said, “I think there was clearly an effort to turn the attention away from the original origin, which was the Wuhan lab. There’s no question about that.”

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