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Comment by Lorena M. Malpica Serrano
Evolutionary biology researcher and coauthor of the Science paper on the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market as the early epicenter of COVID-19
We show here that the earliest known COVID-19 cases from December 2019, including those without reported direct links, were geographically centered on this market. We report that live SARS-CoV-2-susceptible mammals were sold at the market in late 2019 and that within the market, SARS-CoV-2-positive environmental samples were spatially associated with vendors selling live mammals.Disputed (Aug 26, 2022)
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The Edinburgh/Science record shows this wording in a multi-author paper by Worobey et al., so it cannot be verified as a single-author quote solely by Lorena M. Malpica Serrano.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 15d ago
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Verbatim in the Science paper dated 2022-08-26, but this is the wording of a multi-author paper, not a single-author quote by Lorena M. Malpica Serrano alone.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 19d ago
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Quote appears in the cited Science paper abstract, but that source is a multi-author paper beginning Michael Worobey, Joshua I. Levy, and Lorena Malpica Serrano, so it is not verifiable as a single-author Lorena M. Malpica Serrano quote.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 19d ago
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The quote appears verbatim in the University of Edinburgh Research Explorer abstract for the Science article, and that page lists Lorena M. Malpica Serrano among the 17 authors; however, the source is a multi-author paper, so a single-author attribution to Lorena M. Malpica Serrano cannot be verified as the canonical quote author. The page also shows the publication date as 2022-08-26. ([research.ed.ac.uk](https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/the-huanan-seafood-wholesale-market-in-wuhan-was-the-early-epicen/))
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· 20d ago
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