Redfield (48m00s): "I am a virologist by training and practice. Prior to my time at the CDC, I spent more than 20 years as a U.S. Army physician and medical researcher at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research where I served as the Chief of the Department of Retroviral Research and worked in virology, immunology, and clinical research at the forefront of the AIDS epidemic and other viral threats."
Redfield (51m10s): "From the earliest days of the pandemic, my view was that both theories [zoonotic or lab-development] about the origin of COVID-19 needed to be aggressively and thoroughly examined. Unfortunately, this didn't happen. Based on my initial analysis—I believed then and I still believe today—that the COVID-19 infections were the direct result of biomedical research experiment and a subsequent lab leak. Unfortunately, the potential National Security consequences of conducting this research did not receive full consideration prior to the funding decisions to conduct such high-risk research."
Senator Ron Johnson (1h19m50s): "It [lipid nanoparticles in Covid vaccines] crosses the blood-brain barrier, correct?"
Redfield: "Correct..."
Redfield (1h20m20s): "I think, Senator, that what you're getting at, which I'm 100% agreeing with you, is I think there was not appropriate transparency from the beginning about the potential side-effects of these vaccines. And I do think there was inappropriate decisions by some to try to under-report any side effects, because they argued that would make the public less likely to get vaccinated.
I do think that one of the greatest mistakes that was made, of course, was mandating these vaccines. They should have never been mandated. It should have been open to personal choice.
They don't prevent infection. They do have side effects."
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