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Genomics researcher 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.
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Christian Happi, 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 quote is real and appears verbatim on the cited UNMC page, published February 25, 2026. But that page credits a Nature comment titled “COVID’s origins: what we do and don’t know,” and the Nature source shows it is a multi-author piece by 23 named authors, including Christian Happi, published on February 24, 2026—not a single-author statement by Happi alone. Because the source lists multiple individual authors rather than one canonical speaking entity, this platform cannot verify it as a single-author quote. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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