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Comment by Martynas Smičius

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Researcher on SARS-CoV-2 circulation and mink-farm spillovers in Lithuania
We estimated the most likely timeframes for these introductions encompassing at least six SARS-CoV-2 lineages, some of which were already extinct in humans, with Bayesian phylogenetic and molecular clock analyses.
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Smičius et al., "Anthropozoonotic spillovers reveal sustained long-term cryptic circulation of SARS-CoV-2 within and between Lithuanian mink farms," PubMed PMID 41994318, March 13, 2026.
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Bayesian analysis is the right framework for settling the COVID-19 origins question
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Disputed The sentence appears verbatim in the article abstract, and the paper was published on 2026-03-13; however, it is a multi-author article with Martynas Smičius as first author, so I can’t verify this as a single-author quote attributed only to Martynas Smičius. ([academic.oup.com](https://academic.oup.com/ve/article/12/1/veag014/8519330)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 · 1h ago
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