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Postdoctoral researcher in Kristian Andersen's lab at Scripps Research; coauthor of studies on SARS-CoV-2 origins
We eliminated many of the haplotypes previously suggested as the MRCA of SARS-CoV-2 and show that the pandemic most likely began with at least two separate zoonotic transmissions starting in November 2019.
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Joshua I. Levy, 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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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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Disputed The sentence appears verbatim in the PMC version of the Science article at the supplied URL, and the article’s publication date is listed as 2022-08-26. But the work is a multi-author paper cited as J. E. Pekar et al.; page 1 lists Joshua I. Levy as one coauthor, not the sole speaker/author. Under this platform’s single-author rules, that makes the stored attribution to Joshua I. Levy disputed. ([pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9348752/?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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