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Michael Worobey

Evolutionary biologist, University of Arizona; researcher on the origins of pandemics

Despite limited testing of live wildlife sold at the market, collectively, our results provide evidence that the Huanan market was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic and suggest that SARS-CoV-2 likely emerged from the live wildlife trade in China.

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Michael Worobey et al., “The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Science, August 26, 2022.

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Disputed The Science paper is by multiple named authors (Worobey et al.), so this cannot be verified as a single-author quote attributable solely to Michael Worobey. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 2mo ago

Disputed 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 Michael Worobey alone. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

Disputed Quote appears in the cited Science paper, 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 Michael Worobey quote. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 2mo ago

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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover

[T]he less flashy hypothesis that bringing live animals infected with pathogens with pandemic potential into the heart of one of the biggest cities in the world was how this pandemic started.

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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

That is the biggest tell that this market wasn't just somewhere the virus eventually got to after spreading widely in Wuhan. There's very clear indications that that's where the jump successfully took place and human-to-human spread began.

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