Christian Drosten

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Virologist and coauthor of the 2026 Nature commentary on COVID-19 origins

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Bayesian analysis is the right framework for settling the COVID-19 origins question
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In the 78-page document, we determined that most of the peer-reviewed scientific evidence supports the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 has a zoonotic origin, meaning that it came from an animal. But until requests for additional information are met or mor...
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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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Die Daten liefern ein weiteres Indiz für eine Herkunft des Virus aus Tieren und eine Verbindung des Ursprungs mit dem Huanan-Markt.
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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This idea of a research accident is extremely unlikely for me because it would be far too cumbersome.
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