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Nature Comment article on COVID-19 origins published February 24, 2026.
Several wildlife species had been there before it was cleaned and sterilized on 1 January 2020 by the Chinese authorities in response to the outbreak.
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AI Verified Reassigned the exact Nature comment text from an individual coauthor to the canonical article title and Nature URL. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 15d ago
Disputed Nature’s 24 February 2026 article “COVID’s origins: what we do and don’t know” contains this wording as part of a longer sentence, but the piece is credited to 23 named co-authors, including John M. Watson, so it cannot be verified as a quote by Watson alone. ([nature.com](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00530-y?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 20d ago
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