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HOTEZ: "It's absolutely essential, Chuck, and here's the reason why. This is now our third major coronavirus epidemic/pandemic of the 21st century. We had the original SARS in 2002, 2003 that arose out of southern China, affected Toronto, Ontario. Then we had Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome come out in 2012 and caused a terrible epidemic in South Korea in 2015. This is the third one, and nature’s already telling — Mother Nature's telling us what's going to happen. There's going to be Covid-26 and Covid-32 unless we fully understand the origins of Covid-19. And this is absolutely critical and what’s needed, and, you know, what I'm concerned about is I think the intelligence community has been all over this for the last year and a half. It's not like they've not made efforts. I think we’ve — I'm personally of the opinion that we've pushed intelligence about as far as we can. What we need to do is we need to do an outbreak investigation.”