Topic: Human To Human Transmission

Malone discusses a specific case in Louisiana involving an elderly man with pre-existing conditions who contracted avian influenza. He explains that RNA viruses are prone to mutation during chronic infections but reiterates that no sustained human-to-human transmission has been reported. He dismisses media reports of a case in Mexico that the Mexican government has denied.

Dr. Redfield testifies that it was not "scientifically plausible" for a bat virus to become highly infectious to humans overnight without an intermediate host. He compares COVID-19 to SARS and MERS, which never mastered efficient human-to-human transmission. Redfield reiterates that he was sidelined from the February 2020 "Proximal Origin" paper discussions because he challenged the predetermined narrative.