Robert Redfield
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 Robert Redfield    (soldier, doctor, researcher) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 10 July 1951 | |||||||||||||||
| Nationality | US | |||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Georgetown University | |||||||||||||||
| Member of | White House/Coronavirus Task Force | |||||||||||||||
| Interests | • HIV • COVID-19/Origins | |||||||||||||||
CDC director at the time of the emergence of COVID-19. Publicly stated in 2021 that he believed it was leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology
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Robert J. Redfield Jr is a former US military doctor and HIV researcher.
Activities
On 13 March 2013, Redfield - on the third time of asking - committed the US government to providing a free Covid test for each US citizen.[1]
Opinions
On 26 March 2021 in an interview with CNN, Redfield stated that he believed that COVID-19 arose after the accidental leak of a genetically engineered virus from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in September or October of 2019.[2] He reportedly received death threats from other scientists after expressing this opinion.[3]
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