By Bill Rice at Brownstone dot org.

Note: this article was originally published in June 2024.

In a recent interview with Chris Cuomo, former CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield made several eye-opening comments about the government's Covid response and "vaccines." However, what stood out to me (and has generated scant coverage) were Redfield's views that the novel coronavirus was being transmitted in Wuhan between "August and October 2019."

While I appreciate this former prominent public health official's seeming corroboration of "early spread," other Redfield comments on the subject struck me as incongruous or non-sensical.

I also note that Chris Cuomo didn't follow-up on Redfield's observation that virus spread might have begun four months before the official narrative, which shows that mainstream journalists still don't understand the implications of this hypothesis - namely, "early spread" = a virus that is not "deadly"…because wide-spread early infections clearly didn't cause a spike in all-cause deaths in these three or four months of early spread.

Summary

(Emphasis added by author).

"We now know that the transmission of Covid-19 probably began between August and October of 2019 …and clearly (Chinese officials) knew it. They were well-informed," said Redfield.

Redfileld notes that "in the middle of September (2019)," three things happened at the Wuhan Institute of Virology that "raise high suspicion."

1. Chinese officials "changed the leadership at the lab" from civilian to military control. It had previously been a "dual-use" lab, but now the military was in charge.

2. The Chinese "deleted sequence data on historical coronaviruses, which is highly irregular."

3. Chinese officials "put a contract in for a new ventilation system" at the WIV.

Redfield added that "based on intelligence that's been classified, but some that has made it out to the lay press, there were reports of new infections in China by at least "late September."

Questions:

Why is/was this "intelligence" classified?

If "intelligence" sources knew of reports of "new infections by at least late September," why did Fauci, Collins et al go to so much trouble to push the Wuhan Wet Market natural origins theory? (The Wet Market or natural-origins theory holds that infection began in mid-December 2019 - at least three months after these classified intelligence reports.)

World Military Games Allowed no Spectators

Redfield also stated that "By October it (the virus and disease) was pretty wide-spread," and noted that the World Military Games were held in Wuhan in October 2019.

Redfield: "It's very odd the Wuhan government didn't allow any spectators to those games, which tells you something was going on at that time."

My Comment: This is the first time I've heard local spectators were not allowed to attend these games, which, if true, is indeed odd.

As many "Covid contrarians" are aware, several media reports documented that athletes and non-athletes from several countries became sick while at these Games, including an unknown number of Americans.

Common sense suggests that members of the military and government intelligence community would have quickly taken note of these illnesses (as well as the fact no spectators were allowed). Once China finally reported a new virus to the WHO on December 31, 2019, these two facts should have been deemed significant.

Still, neither U.S. "intelligence" - or no person who was part of the sizable U.S. military delegation - apparently notified Fauci and his braintrust of possible, much earlier, virus spread in Wuhan.

To this day, I've seen no reports that any member of the U.S. Military Games' delegation was interviewed or given Covid antibody tests as soon as these tests were available.

Note: I know from my research that Chinese scientists and doctors were performing antibody tests in January 2020. I still don't know when the first antibody tests were available in America. Whatever this date, serological assays were apparently n...