Former CDC Director was removed from meeting to keep single narrative intact.

Former CDC Director: Coming Up With a Single Narrative Is Antithetical to Science

Dr. Redfield, who was the CDC director at the time, was excluded from a February 2020 call with doctors Fauci, Collins, and others discussing the origins of COVID.

"This was an a priori decision that there's one point of view that we're going to put out there, and anyone who doesn't agree with it is going to be sidelined. And as I say, I was only the CDC director, and I was sidelined."

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