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Coauthor of a Science study on SARS-CoV-2 molecular epidemiology and zoonotic origins
The presence of lineage A virus at the Huanan market was confirmed by Gao et al. (43) from a sample taken from discarded gloves.
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Raymond Tzer Pin Lin, 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 verbatim: an accessible repository copy of the paper contains the exact wording on page 5, and the PMC search result for the cited PMCID shows the same sentence. However, the paper is a multi-author article attributed to Jonathan E. Pekar et al.; Raymond Tzer Pin Lin is listed only as one coauthor, not as the sole speaker/author of the quoted sentence, so this platform cannot verify it as a single-author quote. ([escholarship.org](https://escholarship.org/content/qt2sz9s0gw/qt2sz9s0gw.pdf)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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