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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.
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.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 explicitly discusses Bayesian probability, Bayes rule, Bayesian phylogeography, or an evidence framework for the origins question.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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The quote explicitly discusses Bayesian probability, Bayes rule, Bayesian phylogeography, or an evidence framework for the origins question.
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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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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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