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Comment by Robert F. Garry

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Virologist, Tulane University School of Medicine
We actually found that most of those early cases were clustered very tightly around the market.
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Robert Garry, Tulane University, in ScienceDaily, "Pair of studies illuminates COVID-19 pandemic origins," 26 July 2022.
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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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AI Verified The quote is directly about the statement’s core empirical claim—early COVID-19 cases clustering around the Huanan market. In the cited source, Garry presents that clustering as part of the argument that researchers can identify where the virus emerged into humans, so the quote is being used as support for the market-origin interpretation rather than as a merely unrelated observation. ([news.tulane.edu](https://news.tulane.edu/pr/study-finds-wuhan-market-likely-origin-covid-19-pandemic)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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AI Verified Garry’s quote says the early cases were "clustered very tightly around the market," and the source presents that clustering as helping researchers "pinpoint the location of where this virus emerged into the human population." That context strongly implies he sees the pattern as evidence of emergence at the market, not merely a testing artifact. ([news.tulane.edu](https://news.tulane.edu/pr/study-finds-wuhan-market-likely-origin-covid-19-pandemic)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago

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AI Verified The quote is authentic. The Tulane news page at the provided URL, dated 2022-07-26, contains the exact sentence “We actually found that most of those early cases were clustered very tightly around the market,” immediately followed by “Garry said,” which confirms verbatim text and attribution to Garry. Tulane faculty materials corroborate that this is Robert F. Garry. ([news.tulane.edu](https://news.tulane.edu/pr/study-finds-wuhan-market-likely-origin-covid-19-pandemic?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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