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Comment by The Lancet COVID-19 Commission

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Commission convened by The Lancet to examine lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Three research-associated hypotheses are still plausible: infection in the field, infection with a natural virus in the laboratory, and infection with a manipulated virus in the laboratory.
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The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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AI Verified The quote is directly about the COVID-19 origin question and explicitly names both natural spillover and lab-related hypotheses as still plausible. That makes the author's stance determinable as abstaining/undecided rather than clearly supporting the lab-origin claim. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 · 2h ago
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AI Verified The article says all three research-associated hypotheses are still plausible, including infection in the field and two lab-related scenarios, so it does not take a side on lab origin versus natural spillover. ([pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9539542/?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 · 2h ago

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AI Verified The sentence appears verbatim in the Lancet Commission report published online on 2022-09-14; the user’s version is a faithful excerpt that omits the opening clause. ([researchgate.net](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363570404_The_Lancet_Commission_on_lessons_for_the_future_from_the_COVID-19_pandemic)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 · 2h ago
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