Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said on "Fox & Friends" Wednesday that public health officials treated Americans like "children" when it came to questions about whether COVID-19 originated from a Wuhan lab or developed naturally. He said Americans may have less trust in public health officials after questions about the Wuhan lab leak were treated as "conspiracy theories" for the past year. Some of the people involved in public health in this country spoke with such a level of certainty about this a year and a half ago. And what that does, along with other things that happened from public health officials in the last year, is it undermines the public's confidence in our public health officials and in our public health system. And so what this does in the future, we're going to have other pandemics and other serious public health crises.

Source: Fox News May 26, 2021 17:15 UTC