Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., responded Wednesday to the media's sudden warming to the lab-leak hypothesis concerning the origin of the coronavirus, telling Fox News, "I'm not looking for any awards." In a near complete reversal from a year ago, mainstream media outlets have begun treating with some level of seriousness the hypothesis that the coronavirus origin lies in a lab in Wuhan, China. Cotton, a skeptic from the beginning of the Chinese government's official account of the virus, was recognized by the Washington Post in an analysis piece Tuesday titled: "Timeline: How the Wuhan lab-leak theory suddenly became credible." She stated that Kessler wrote the piece because of various headlines from around the start of the pandemic criticizing Cotton, some saying he was repeating a "fringe theory" about the virus' possible origins. "Well, Dana, I’m not looking for any awards from the mainstream media, and I'll let history sort things out for itself," Cotton said, chuckling.

Source: Fox News May 26, 2021 16:41 UTC