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Coauthor of a 2026 Cell study on natural selection before viral epidemics and pandemics
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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Jordan D. Zehr, 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 supplied PMC article is real and lists Jordan D. Zehr as one of eight authors, with final-edited publication date 2026-03-06, but the submitted quote is not verbatim in that source and is not attributable to Zehr alone. In the article text, the key sentence uses "support" and "the virus" (not "supports" and "virus"), and the passage appears in a multi-author paper by Havens, Kosakovsky Pond, Zehr, Pekar, Parker, Worobey, Andersen, and Wertheim; this platform therefore cannot verify it as a single-author Jordan D. Zehr quote. ([fightingmonarch.com](https://fightingmonarch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/piis0092867426001716.pdf)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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