No definitive evidence found linking COVID-19 to animals, says former China CDC head
- Former head of China's CDC says there is no evidence COVID-19 came from an animal and jumped to humans
- Former head of the Chinese CDC says there is no evidence yet showing which animal the COVID-causing virus may have come from.
- Dr. George Fu Gao, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, believes the origins of COVID-19 will not be revealed.
- Gao claims that the subject is too sensitive and politicized, and that the focus should be on science.
- He also stated that there is no evidence of an intermediate animal species between bats and humans.