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Infectious disease physician at Johns Hopkins
I don’t think we have enough evidence to definitively identify the origin of COVID, [...] I think what is necessary is more information about early cases that occurred in 2019, to really understand the early days of COVID-19.
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Amesh Adalja, quoted in Banjot Kaur, "The Pandemic Is 2. Why Do We Still Not Know the Origins of SARS-CoV-2?", The Wire Science, March 11, 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 In context, Adalja says the case clustering around the market is a "significant conclusion," but his quoted position is that "we [don’t] have enough evidence to definitively identify the origin" and that more information on early 2019 cases is needed. That is an explicitly cautious, not-yet-decided stance on whether the clustering truly shows where the virus emerged rather than testing bias. ([science.thewire.in](https://science.thewire.in/external-affairs/world/pandemic-anniversary-sars-cov-2-origins-worobey-pekar-gao-spillover/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3h ago

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AI Verified The source URL is fetchable, and the March 11, 2022 The Wire Science article contains these same two sentences attributed to Amesh Adalja; the submitted wording matches apart from the allowed ellipsis joining the two sentences. The article’s byline/date also match the stored source details, and Johns Hopkins identifies Amesh Adalja as a senior scholar, corroborating the attribution. ([science.thewire.in](https://science.thewire.in/external-affairs/world/pandemic-anniversary-sars-cov-2-origins-worobey-pekar-gao-spillover/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3h ago
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