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Coauthor of a Science study on SARS-CoV-2 molecular epidemiology and zoonotic origins
The most probable explanation for the introduction of SARS-CoV-2 into humans involves zoonotic jumps from as-yet undetermined, intermediate host animals at the Huanan market.
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Scott Hughes, 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 does appear verbatim in the PMC article at the supplied URL, but that article is a multi-author paper, not a single-author statement by Scott Hughes. PubMed lists the work as "The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2" by Jonathan E. Pekar et al., including Scott Hughes as one of many coauthors, published in Science on 2022-08-26 (Epub 2022-07-26). Under this platform’s rules, a quote from a paper with multiple individual authors cannot be verified as a single-author quote attributed only to Scott Hughes. ([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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