Arturo Casadevall

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Physician-scientist and microbiologist at Johns Hopkins; coauthor of an ASM editorial on SARS-CoV-2 origin hypotheses

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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 evidence supports the scenario that two distinct ancestral lineages of SARS-CoV-2 jumped from animals into humans, and that the Huanan Seafood Market in Hubei Province, China, where wild animals were routinely present and slaughtered, was the epi...
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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I would say it strengthens the zoonotic idea, that is, the idea that it came from an animal at the market.
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