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There has been pushback on the lab leak hypothesis:
"New Reconstruction Points to Animal Origins for Covid-19: An evolutionary biologist reviewed data and reports on first known cases to show most were clustered around Wuhan’s seafood market" By Betsy McKay • Nov. 18, 2021 https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-reconstruction-points-to-animal-o…
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There has been pushback on the lab leak hypothesis:
"New Reconstruction Points to Animal Origins for Covid-19: An evolutionary biologist reviewed data and reports on first known cases to show most were clustered around Wuhan’s seafood market" By Betsy McKay • Nov. 18, 2021
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-reconstruction-points-to-animal-origins-for-covid-19-11637262041
"A scientist known for investigating viral origins has reconstructed the first known weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic, adding to a growing body of evidence that the virus behind it jumped from infected animals to humans rather than emerging from laboratory research.
"In a paper published Thursday in the academic journal Science, Michael Worobey concludes a wholesale seafood market in Wuhan, China, where live mammals were sold is very likely to be the site of the origin of the pandemic."
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm4454