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Virologist and coauthor of the 2026 Nature commentary on COVID-19 origins
Metagenomic sequencing of environmental samples collected at the market has indicated that several wildlife species had been there.
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Christian Drosten, coauthor of "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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Disputed Nature’s 24 February 2026 Comment article contains this wording as the start of a longer sentence (“...had been there before it was cleaned and sterilized on 1 January 2020...”); however, the source is credited to 23 individual co-authors, with Christian Drosten listed as one of them, not as the sole author. Under this platform’s rules, that makes the stored single-author attribution disputable rather than verifiable. ([nature.com](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00530-y?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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