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An Article in Science on Wet-Market Covid Origins is Unreliable

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Abstract

An influential paper by Worobey et al. published in Science in 2022 claimed that case locations and nucleic acid samples showed that SARS-CoV-2 had first been introduced to humans at the Huanan Seafood Market. Several lines of evidence suggest the introduction to humans was earlier and elsewhere.

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  • Michael B. Weissman
Keywords SARS-CoV-2 origins, spatial statistics, collider stratification bias, population structure, epidemio
Volume Number 23
Issue Number 2
Pages 288–310
File URL An Article in Science on Wet-Market Covid Origins is Unreliable
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Publication year 2026

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