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Reader in microbial pathogenesis at the University of Bath

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The clustering of early cases around the Huanan market reflects where the COVID-19 virus emerged, not just where testing looked
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The language of the paper is unusual, its contains a significant degree of supposition and conjecture, cites blog posts and appears to be pointing towards a deliberate cover up by Chinese authorities of early sequence data from Wuhan. However, this i...
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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Current evidence suggests the virus originated from the market.
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