Fauci urges China's release of medical records -FT

Top U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has called on China to release the medical records of researchers at a virology lab in Wuhan who reportedly fell seriously ill a month before the first COVID-19 cases were reported.

That’s according to the Financial Times which quoted Fauci as saying: "I would like to see the medical records of the three people who are reported to have got sick in 2019. Did they really get sick, and if so, what did they get sick with?”

Disclosing such details would provide vital clues into whether COVID-19 first emerged as the result of a lab leak… a theory U.S. intelligence agencies are still investigating.

Fauci - who has previously said covid is more likely a natural occurrence -

(MAY 25: "But we don't know 100% the answer to that")

also called on China to release the medical records of six miners who got sick after entering a cave in 2012.

The FT report, published Thursday, said Fauci continues to believe the virus was first transmitted to humans through animals, pointing out that even if researchers did have COVID-19, they could have contracted the disease from the wider population.

A spokesman for China's foreign ministry declined to comment on whether China would release the records of the nine people.

But - he firmly denied that the lab was linked to the outbreak of COVID-19… calling reports of the lab leak a ‘conspiracy theory.’