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Life sciences researcher at Jiangsu Normal University and first author of a National Science Review critique of the Huanan-market epicenter claim
By this definition, what Worobey et al. identified is not the epicenter of the global pandemic for the obvious reason that the conclusion is based entirely on SARS-CoV-2 samples collected in Wuhan. Where else could they have pinpointed the epicenter with their samples? Had they used only virus data from the Antarctica, they would have concluded that some place on that continent is the epicenter.
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Shaoyuan Wu et al., "Was Wuhan the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic?", National Science Review, December 22, 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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Disputed The passage appears verbatim in the supplied Oxford Academic article at the source URL, in the body text at lines 956-957, and the article was published on 2022-12-22. However, the source is a multi-author journal article, not a single-author statement: Oxford lists Yanan Cao first and Shaoyuan Wu as one of many coauthors, and PubMed indexes it as Yanan Cao et al. Under the single-author verification rule, this cannot be confirmed as a quote by Shaoyuan Wu alone. ([academic.oup.com](https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/10/4/nwac287/6957401?login=false)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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