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Microbiologist and first author of the Cell study on Huanan market wildlife and SARS-CoV-2 genetic tracing
These findings indicate that it is unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 circulated widely in humans prior to November 2019 and define the narrow window between when SARS-CoV-2 first jumped into humans and when the first cases of COVID-19 were reported.
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Alexander Crits-Christoph, coauthor of Jonathan E. Pekar et al., "The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2," Science, August 26, 2022.
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Disputed Source is the multi-author Science paper 'Jonathan E. Pekar et al., The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2'; text from that jointly authored paper is not a single-author quote attributable just to Alexander Crits-Christoph. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 15d ago
Disputed The sentence is real and appears verbatim in the abstract of the cited paper’s PMC record, but it is not attributable to Alexander Crits-Christoph alone: the paper is a multi-author article (listed as Jonathan E. Pekar, Andrew Magee, Edyth Parker, … Alexander Crits-Christoph, … Joel O. Wertheim / “J. E. Pekar et al.”). Because this platform cannot verify a many-author paper as a single-author quote, the attribution is disputed. ([pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9348752/?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 20d ago
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