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Comment by Nathaniel L. Matteson

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Coauthor of a Science study on SARS-CoV-2 molecular epidemiology and zoonotic origins
The earliest lineage A genomes from humans lack a direct epidemiological connection to the Huanan market, but were sampled from individuals who lived or had recently stayed close to the market.
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Nathaniel L. Matteson, 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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The clustering of early cases around the Huanan market reflects where the COVID-19 virus emerged, not just where testing looked
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Disputed The sentence appears verbatim on the PMC page for the Science article. But the source is a multi-author paper: Jonathan E. Pekar is first author and Nathaniel L. Matteson is listed only as one of many coauthors, so this platform cannot verify the sentence as a quote by Matteson alone. The web evidence also indicates the article was first released online on 2022-07-26; 2022-08-26 is the later print-issue date. ([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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