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Comment by Inger K. Damon
Infectious-disease scientist and coauthor of the 2026 Nature commentary on COVID-19 origins
In the 78-page document, we determined that most of the peer-reviewed scientific evidence supports the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 has a zoonotic origin, meaning that it came from an animal. But until requests for additional information are met or more data become available, there can be no certainty about when, where and how SARS-CoV-2 entered the human population.Disputed (Feb 24, 2026)
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The quoted passage appears verbatim on the cited UNMC page, but that page is a fair-use excerpt credited only to Nature and does not name Inger K. Damon as the speaker. ([unmc.edu](https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2026/02/25/covids-origins-what-we-do-and-dont-know/)) Nature’s original comment, dated 24 February 2026, lists 23 individual coauthors including Inger K. Damon, so this is a collective multi-author statement rather than a quote verifiable to Damon alone. ([nature.com](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00530-y.pdf)) Under the platform rules, a source with multiple individual authors cannot be verified here as a single-author quote, so the stored attribution is disputed even though the text itself is real. ([nature.com](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00530-y.pdf))
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