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Comment by Elmoubasher Farag

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Clinical associate professor 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.
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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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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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Disputed The quoted text appears verbatim at the submitted UNMC source URL (line 134). But the underlying source is a Nature comment published on 24 February 2026 that lists many individual coauthors, including Elmoubasher Farag, rather than attributing the sentence to Farag alone; ORA likewise records the article as a multi-author work. Because this platform cannot verify a multi-author article sentence as a single-author quote, the attribution to Elmoubasher Farag alone is disputed. ([unmc.edu](https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2026/02/25/covids-origins-what-we-do-and-dont-know/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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