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Coauthor of a 2026 Open COVID Journal meta-analysis on scientific consensus and COVID-19 origins.
While early concerns over engineered features existed, many scientists now agree that the weight of current peer-reviewed evidence points to a natural spillover event from animals to humans, likely originating in bats and possible involving intermediate hosts like pangolins or civets.
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Alimi A, coauthor of "COVID-19 Origins: A Mixed-Methods Meta-Analysis of Scientific Consensus and Political Narratives," The Open COVID Journal, published March 9, 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 submitted sentence does appear verbatim in the supplied source URL’s PDF (around p. 10, lines 1103-1109), and the journal’s article page gives an electronic publication date of 2026-03-09. However, the source is a multi-author journal article listing 19 coauthors, including Alimi A / A.T. Alimi, and the sentence is not attributed uniquely to Alimi A. Under this platform’s rules, that makes the stored single-author attribution disputed rather than verified. ([opencovidjournal.com](https://opencovidjournal.com/VOLUME/6/ELOCATOR/e26669587424966/PDF/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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