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Comment by Jeffrey Sachs
American economist
We do not know where SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused this pandemic, came from. Some scientists surmise that it came from a marketplace. Many scientists are worried that it came out of a laboratory through work that was underway on SARS-like viruses [...] Both hypotheses are viable. Neither has been disproved.AI Verified (Mar 3, 2023)
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The quote is directly about whether SARS-CoV-2 came from a lab-related incident or a marketplace spillover, and it explicitly says both hypotheses remain viable and neither has been disproved. That makes the source's stance on the complete statement determinable as abstention/undecided, even though it does not endorse the lab-origin claim.
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YouCongress
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The quote is explicitly neutral: it says "We do not know," that "Both hypotheses are viable," and that "Neither has been disproved," so it does not endorse lab origin over natural spillover. ([nymag.com](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/covid-lab-leak-theory-jeffrey-sachs-peter-daszak.html))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17
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The quote appears in the provided NYMag article by James D. Walsh, dated Mar. 3, 2023, and it is explicitly attributed there to Jeffrey Sachs; the user’s [...] marks only omitted text from the same passage. ([nymag.com](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/covid-lab-leak-theory-jeffrey-sachs-peter-daszak.html))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17
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