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Comment by Joel O. Wertheim

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Evolutionary biologist at UC San Diego studying viral evolution and SARS-CoV-2 origins
Together, these analyses provide dispositive evidence for the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 via the live wildlife trade and identify the Huanan market as the unambiguous epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Joel O. Wertheim, coauthor of Worobey et al., "The Huanan market was the epicenter of SARS-CoV-2 emergence," Zenodo preprint record, February 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 sentence is plausibly real as wording from the Feb. 26, 2022 Zenodo preprint: Zenodo record 6299116 is dated 2022-02-26 and lists Joel O. Wertheim as one of 18 authors, not the sole author; contemporaneous reproductions of the preprint abstract and Michael Worobey’s 2022-02-26 thread quote the sentence verbatim as the paper’s conclusion. But this platform cannot verify it as a single-author Joel O. Wertheim quote, because the source is a multi-author scientific preprint rather than a statement attributed to Wertheim alone. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3h ago
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