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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.
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"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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AI Verified The quote says the peer-reviewed evidence supports a zoonotic origin, which directly opposes the lab-leak statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 15d ago
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AI Verified Nature's comment contains the stored sentence; author corrected from individual coauthors to the article title. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 15d ago
Disputed The sentence appears verbatim on the UNMC page, which is published 2026-02-25. The linked Nature article is dated 2026-02-24 and lists 23 individual coauthors, including Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, rather than presenting the statement as hers alone. So this is a real quote in the source URL, but it is not a verifiable single-author quote attributable solely to Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka. ([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 · 20d ago
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