Claremont Institute Senior Fellow Jeremy Carl says a number of those on the right who suggested COVID-19 may have come from an accidental lab leak in China were “attacked in hysterical terms”.
“It just showed the first of many, many failures of the global public health establishment in the US, public health establishment in particular, to just have even the most basic types of honesty and integrity,” Mr Carl told Sky News host Rita Panahi.
Mr Carl’s remarks come after the US Energy Department reportedly newly assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from an accidental lab leak in China.
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