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The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2

2022 Science paper on SARS-CoV-2 molecular epidemiology and multiple zoonotic introductions.

This geographic proximity is consistent with a separate and subsequent origin of lineage A at the Huanan market in late-November 2019.

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"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 in the paper text at the PMC source URL, but the source is a multi-author Science article rather than a statement attributable to Katherine Zi Yan Ching alone. PubMed indexes the work as Jonathan E. Pekar et al. with many authors and publication date August 26, 2022, so this platform treats the single-author attribution as disputed. ([pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9348752/?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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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

In a related study (39), we show that the two earliest lineage A cases are more closely positioned geographically to the Huanan market than expected compared with other COVID-19 cases in Wuhan in early 2020, despite having no known association with t...

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