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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 verified quote is on-topic and makes the recorded stance substantially more likely.
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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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· 15d ago
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The text is authentic: the UNMC page dated February 25, 2026 reproduces the passage verbatim and credits Nature, and Nature’s original Comment dated 24 February 2026 contains the same passage. But the Nature piece has a 23-person byline, with Christian Drosten listed as one co-author rather than the sole author, so this platform cannot verify it as a single-author quote by Drosten alone. ([unmc.edu](https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2026/02/25/covids-origins-what-we-do-and-dont-know/))
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YouCongress
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