On Wednesday's broadcast of MSNBC's "Deadline: White House," Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota and former adviser to President Biden's transition team Dr. Michael Osterholm stated that more people in the scientific community are speaking out on the possibility that COVID-19 came from a lab and that a year ago, discussing the issue "would have meant that you were somehow supporting the president in this approach and so I saw scientists actually backing off of that issue."