James Lankford: “The market was not the source [of the first infection]. It…”

“You wrote, it now appears using EPI data that the genomic data, the first infection was in early December and was not connected to the market, which was the big rumor that was out there is this wet market in China. We know The market was not the source [of the first infection]. It was the amplifier. On January 31, you wrote about a phone call. You wrote, the people on the phone felt the mutations around the furin cleavage site of the spike protein could not …” (03:58–04:15)

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