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Comment by Yanan Cao

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Researcher at Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; first author of a National Science Review critique of early COVID-19 epicenter analyses
By this definition, what Worobey et al. identified is not the epicenter of the global pandemic for the obvious reason that the conclusion is based entirely on SARS-CoV-2 samples collected in Wuhan.
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Yanan Cao et al., “Was Wuhan the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic?—A critique,” National Science Review, published December 22, 2022.
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The clustering of early cases around the Huanan market reflects where the COVID-19 virus emerged, not just where testing looked
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Disputed The quote appears verbatim in the Oxford Academic article published on 22 December 2022, but the paper lists multiple authors (starting with Yanan Cao), so I can’t verify it as a single-author quote. ([academic.oup.com](https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/10/4/nwac287/6957401?login=false)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 · 1h ago
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