DNC -- "Hey, Tony...our coronavirus narrative is falling flat, what else you got in your toolbox?"
Fauci-- "Well, China has a nice cousin to H1N1 that spread through pigs between 2011 to 2018 and infected 10% of the pig farmers that were sampled, but it hasn't killed anyone we know of..."
DNC -- "Who gives a ____ if it's killed anyone...can you make it sound scary if we put you on all the networks and feed it to non-science Joe Schmoe the voter?"
Fauci -- "Well, for a fee, I suppose I could write up something vague, yet ominous..."
DNC -- "Good enough, let's run with it."