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Evidence of Covid-19 originating from Chinese lab continues to grow: Ex-FDA chief
WASHINGTON : The former head of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday said that circumstantial evidence of Covid-19 originating in a lab in China's Wuhan continues to grow as researchers are yet to prove that the virus jumped from an animal to humans, The Hill reported.Former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb told US media that circumstantial evidence to suggest the lab leak theory is increasing."I think the challenge right now is that the side of the ledger that supports the thesis that this [COVID-19] came from a zoonotic source, from an animal source, hasn't budged and the side of the ledger that suggests this could have come out of a lab has been continuing to grow," he said.Gottlieb also said the intermediate host of the