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World Socialist Web Site reporter covering science, public health, and COVID-19 origins
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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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Benjamin Mateus
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Spatial analyses prove that the earliest known cases in December 2019 clustered tightly around the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market—even when explicitly excluding patients who worked or shopped there. Extensive genetic and environmental evidence place...
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Benjamin Mateus
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Independent scientific investigations across multiple disciplines—phylogenetics, phylogeography, selection dynamics, epidemiology, and environmental metagenomics—conducted between 2022 and March 2026, all converge on the same conclusion: the COVID-19...
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