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Tom Cole: “We identified SARS emerge a lot quicker. And again, that…”

Featuring: Tom Cole, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, 4th Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 39:37

That's the other thing that concerns me now about the natural thing, we have not really identified, you know, where this came from. And it's now been well over a year that we've been looking into this and We identified SARS emerge a lot quicker. And again, that argues again, for a lab accident as opposed to something else. But again, we should also remember some of the information we got were from some very brave doctors and scientists in China, some of whom died, you know, as a result of the disease. (39:37–39:48)

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Suggests that the slower identification of COVID-19's origin compared to SARS supports the lab accident theory.

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