Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Thursday that avian influenza has the potential to become the “great pandemic,” telling Newsmax that if the virus learns how to be transmitted human to human, “it will be catastrophic.”
By comparison, Redfield said the COVID-19 pandemic, which killed more than 7 million people worldwide, was the “lesser pandemic.”
Redfield joined Newsmax’s “National Report” to again beat the drum against gain-of-function research, which teaches viruses “to be more infectious for humans.”
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