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Ted Cruz: “I think it is overwhelmingly likely that the COVID virus…”

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Why I Told President Trump to Attack Iran - Sen. Ted Cruz

Published | Video Starts at 1:10:52

And it's actually the most terrifying weapon that human beings will ever have come up with. Particularly because I think we often overestimate what we know. So let's take Covid. I think it is overwhelmingly likely that the COVID virus escaped from a Chinese government lab. I think it is likely, although I wouldn't say overwhelmingly likely, that it was bioengineered in that lab, that they used gain of function research to make it more contagious, to increase its ability to impact humans. (1:10:52–1:10:58)

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Asserts that it is highly probable COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese government lab.

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