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Comment by Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond

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Computational evolutionary biologist at Temple University and coauthor of a 2026 Cell study on viral epidemic 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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Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, 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 source URL for the PMC article "Dynamics of natural selection preceding human viral epidemics and pandemics" (Cell, published 2026-03-06) contains the quoted wording about SARS-CoV-2 and the market, and Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond is listed there as a coauthor. However, the article has multiple individual authors, so this platform cannot verify it as a single-author quote attributed solely to Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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