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Coauthor of a Science study on SARS-CoV-2 molecular epidemiology and zoonotic origins
By late-December, when SARS-CoV-2 was identified as the etiological agent of COVID-19, the virus had likely been introduced into humans multiple times as a result of persistent contact with a viral reservoir.
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Jennifer L. Havens, 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 underlying sentence is real and appears in the cited Science article; the PMC source URL’s search snippet shows it, and the typeset PDF contains the same sentence at lines 680-683, though the PDF reads “late December” rather than the stored “late-December.” The attribution is not canonical, however: this is a multi-author paper by Jonathan E. Pekar, Andrew Magee, Edyth Parker, Niema Moshiri, Katherine Izhikevich, Jennifer L. Havens, and many others, so this platform cannot verify it as a single-author Jennifer L. Havens quote. PubMed lists the article in Science 377(6609):960-966 with issue date 2022-08-26 and Epub 2022-07-26. ([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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