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Clinical associate professor and coauthor of the 2026 Nature commentary on COVID-19 origins
These animals could have been the intermediate hosts that brought the virus to the market, leading to the early cases in humans.
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Elmoubasher Farag, 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 The sentence appears verbatim in the submitted Nature article URL, and the article is dated 24 February 2026. However, the piece is explicitly a multi-author article (“By” 23 named authors, including Elmoubasher Farag), so this platform cannot verify it as a quote by Elmoubasher Farag alone. ([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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