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Comment by Jennifer L. Havens

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Coauthor of a Science study on SARS-CoV-2 molecular epidemiology and zoonotic origins
In late 2019, SARS-CoV-2 was epidemiologically linked to a market selling wild animals in central China [...] Genetic and epidemiological evidence supports the hypothesis that virus preceding SARS-CoV-2 briefly circulated in an intermediate host sold at the market.
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Jennifer L. Havens, coauthor of "Dynamics of natural selection preceding human viral epidemics and pandemics," Cell, published March 6, 2026.
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The clustering of early cases around the Huanan market reflects where the COVID-19 virus emerged, not just where testing looked
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Disputed The quoted wording does appear in the supplied PMC article’s author-manuscript text, but that source is a multi-author paper attributed to Jennifer L. Havens and seven coauthors, not to Havens alone, so this platform cannot verify it as a single-author quote. The final-access PDF also shows slight wording differences ("evidence support" / "the virus") versus the stored quote. ([pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13092335/?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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