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Comment by Andrew F. Magee

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Computational biologist and coauthor of SARS-CoV-2 molecular epidemiology studies
By synthesizing posterior probabilities of inferred ancestral haplotypes, frequencies of topologies in epidemic simulations, and the expected relationships between these haplotypes and topologies, we infer strong support favoring separate introductions of lineages A and B.
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Andrew F. Magee, 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 does appear in the article associated with PMCID PMC9348752, and PubMed PMID 35881005 identifies that paper as a multi-author work: Jonathan E. Pekar, Andrew Magee, Edyth Parker, et al., published 2022-08-26 (first released 2022-07-26). Because the source attributes the wording to the paper’s full author list, not to Andrew F. Magee alone, this platform cannot verify it as a single-author quote. Also, the Science PDF/version of record renders the key verb as “we inferred,” not “we infer.” · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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