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Comment by COVID's origins: what we do and don't know
Nature Comment article on COVID-19 origins published February 24, 2026.
We also know that the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan had a significant role in the early transmission and initial spread of the virus. These animals could have been the intermediate hosts that brought the virus to the market, leading to the early cases in humans.AI Verified (Feb 24, 2026)
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The quote says the peer-reviewed evidence supports a zoonotic origin, which directly opposes the lab-leak statement.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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The quote says Huanan market had a significant role in early transmission / early spread, which directly bears on the market-clustering statement.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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Nature's comment contains the stored sentence; author corrected from individual coauthors to the article title.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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Web search confirms the quote appears verbatim on the Nature page at the stated URL, and the page header shows it was published on 2026-02-24. But the source is a multi-author Nature Comment: the page lists 23 individual authors, including Chinwe Ochu, and the article text is presented as authored collectively (“We are 23 of the 27 original members…”), not by Chinwe Ochu alone. So the quote is real, but it is not verifiable here as a single-author Chinwe Ochu quote.
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YouCongress
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