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Coauthor of a Science study on SARS-CoV-2 molecular epidemiology and zoonotic origins
The presence of potential animal reservoirs, coupled with the timing of the lineage B primary case and the geographic clustering of early cases around the Huanan market, support the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 lineage B jumped into humans at the Huanan market in mid-November 2019.
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Heedo Park, 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 is real and essentially verbatim in the article; the only substantive difference is that the source text includes the reference marker “(39)” after “Huanan market.” The PMC record snippet contains the sentence, and the article/PubMed records show it is from the multi-author Science paper “The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2.” Heedo Park is listed as one coauthor among many, not as the sole author/speaker, so this cannot be verified as a single-author quote attributed only to Heedo Park. The web records also show a date split between online-first 2022-07-26 and issue date 2022-08-26. ([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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