Comment by Maria G. Guzman

Virologist and coauthor of the 2026 Nature commentary on COVID-19 origins
After nearly 3.5 years of deliberations, we concluded our independent assessment of the origin of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, and provided our report in June 2025 to the WHO director-general.
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Disputed The quote is real and appears verbatim at the Nature URL dated 2026-02-24. However, the page attributes the piece to 23 named coauthors, and the quoted paragraph itself begins 'We are 23 of the 27 original members ...', so this is not a single-author quote attributable to Maria G. Guzman alone; she is listed only as one coauthor. ([nature.com](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00530-y)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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