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Comment by James C. Alwine

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Virologist and professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania; lead author of a Journal of Virology editorial on SARS-CoV-2 origin hypotheses
The preponderance of scientific evidence indicates a natural origin for SARS-CoV-2. Yet, the theory that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered in and escaped from a lab dominates media attention, even in the absence of strong evidence.
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James C. Alwine et al., "The harms of promoting the lab leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 origins without evidence," Journal of Virology, Aug. 1, 2024.
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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Disputed The quote appears verbatim in the article abstract at the supplied DOI URL, but the source is a multi-author paper (James C. Alwine et al.), so it cannot be verified as a single-author quote attributed only to James C. Alwine. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 · 2h ago
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