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Evolutionary biologist at the University of Edinburgh studying viral evolution and phylodynamics
Although there is insufficient evidence to define upstream events, and exact circumstances remain obscure, our analyses indicate that the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 occurred through the live wildlife trade in China and show that the Huanan market was the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Andrew Rambaut, 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 source URL contains the quoted sentence verbatim in the abstract, but it attributes the paper to 18 coauthors—Michael Worobey through Kristian G. Andersen—with Andrew Rambaut listed as only one coauthor, not the sole speaker/author. The page also shows publication on 2022-08-26, with an early online date of 2022-07-26. Because this is a multi-author research article rather than a single-author statement, this platform cannot verify it as an Andrew Rambaut 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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