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Nature Comment article on COVID-19 origins published February 24, 2026.
These animals could have been the intermediate hosts that brought the virus to the market.
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"COVID's origins: what we do and don't know," Nature, February 24, 2026.
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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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AI Unverifiable Nature source says animals could have brought the virus to the market, but does not establish whether early-case clustering reflects emergence rather than testing. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 14d ago
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AI Verified Reassigned this exact quote from an individual coauthor to the canonical Nature comment article title and canonical Nature URL. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 15d ago
Disputed Nature’s page for "COVID’s origins: what we do and don’t know" is dated 24 February 2026 and lists 23 individual coauthors, including Stuart D. Blacksell. The source URL contains a longer sentence — "These animals could have been the intermediate hosts that brought the virus to the market, leading to the early cases in humans" — so the stored text is truncated/altered, and because this is a multi-author article rather than a single-author statement, this platform cannot verify it as a Stuart D. Blacksell quote. ([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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