Speaking to Vanity Fair, Redfield said the threats began in March after he said he believed the virus had originated in a lab.
Trump’s CDC director Robert Redfield says he got death threats for saying he thought COVID leaked from China lab
“I was threatened and ostracized because I proposed another hypothesis,” Redfield told Vanity Fair. “I expected it from politicians. I didn’t expect it from science.”
Redfield, who led the CDC under former President Donald Trump’s administration from 2018 to 2021, told Vanity Fair that he was allegedly targeted by fellow scientists over the statement.
“I was threatened and ostracized because I proposed another hypothesis,” he said. “I expected it from politicians. I didn’t expect it from science.”