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The COVID-19-causing coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, likely first spread to humans from animals in two separate transmission events in a Wuhan market in late November 2019, according to a pair of analyses by international teams co-led by Scripps Research scientists. The analyses, published July 26, 2022 in Science and released in earlier, pre-print versions in February, were based mainly on the locations of cases and environmental samples, as well as genomic sequences of SARS-CoV-2 isolates, from the first weeks of the pandemic in China.
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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 Relevant: the quote, read with the source context, ties the geographic clustering of early cases and related evidence to zoonotic emergence at the Huanan market, not merely to where investigators were looking. The article explicitly frames the market as the "early epicenter" and "very likely the place of emergence," so the author's stance on the complete statement is determinable. ([medicalxpress.com](https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-07-pair-huanan-epicenter-sars-cov-emergence.html)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3h ago
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AI Verified The quote says SARS-CoV-2 likely first spread to humans in a Wuhan market, and the article context says early cases "clustered tightly around the Huanan Market" and that this showed it was the "early epicenter" and likely place of emergence, not merely where testing was concentrated. ([medicalxpress.com](https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-07-pair-huanan-epicenter-sars-cov-emergence.html)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3h ago

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AI Verified Verified: the MedicalXpress page dated July 26, 2022 contains the quoted text verbatim in its opening two paragraphs and credits the article "by The Scripps Research Institute." Scripps Research’s own July 26, 2022 press page repeats the same wording, corroborating the attribution. ([medicalxpress.com](https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-07-pair-huanan-epicenter-sars-cov-emergence.html)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3h ago
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