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Comment by Marc A. Suchard

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Computational biologist and statistician at UCLA, coauthor of SARS-CoV-2 origins and molecular epidemiology studies
Our epidemic simulations do not support a single introduction of SARS-CoV-2 giving rise to the observed phylogeny.
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Marc A. Suchard, 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 article, but it is not attributable to Marc A. Suchard alone. The source is a multi-author paper; PubMed lists Jonathan E. Pekar, Andrew Magee, Edyth Parker, and many others, including Marc A. Suchard, as coauthors. Under the single-author verification rule, that makes this quote misattributed for this platform, so the record is disputed. The stored date matches the Science issue date (2022-08-26), though the PMC record also reflects an earlier online publication date. ([pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/9348752/?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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