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Evolutionary biology researcher and coauthor of the Science paper on the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market as the early epicenter of COVID-19
We show here that the earliest known COVID-19 cases from December 2019, including those without reported direct links, were geographically centered on this market.
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Lorena M. Malpica Serrano, coauthor of Worobey et al., "The Huanan seafood wholesale market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic," Science, August 26, 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 quoted sentence is verbatim at the supplied University of Edinburgh Research Explorer URL, and that page shows the publication date as 2022-08-26. However, the page attributes the article to 18 individual coauthors, including Lorena Malpica Serrano (listed without the middle initial), rather than to Lorena alone, so this platform cannot verify it as a single-author quote. ([research.ed.ac.uk](https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/the-huanan-seafood-wholesale-market-in-wuhan-was-the-early-epicen/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3h ago
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