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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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Disputed Quote appears in the cited National Science Review critique, but the source is a multi-author scientific paper and does not support attributing the line solely to Yanan Cao. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 15d ago
Disputed Verbatim in the National Science Review article published 2022-12-22, but this is the wording of a multi-author paper, not a single-author quote by Yanan Cao alone. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago
Disputed Quote appears in the National Science Review article, but the source lists multiple individual authors beginning Yanan Cao and Lingling Chen, so it is not verifiable as a single-author Yanan Cao quote. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 20d ago
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 · 20d ago
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