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Comment by Paul Offit
Pediatrician, vaccine expert, CHOP
The first cluster of cases were restricted to the western section of a market that was selling live animals susceptible to the virus, exactly where you would have expected a spillover event to occur. The estimated chance that this pattern had occurred randomly, and not as a direct result of animals infecting people, is about 1 in 10 million.AI Verified (Mar 29, 2023)
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Offit ties the earliest cluster to the live-animal section of the Huanan market and says this is exactly what spillover would predict, so the quote is directly relevant.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 2h ago
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Offit cites early-case clustering in the market as evidence of spillover there, directly addressing the statement.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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Correct answer is for: Offit says the first cluster was in the live-animal section of the market exactly where spillover would be expected.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 1h ago
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Recorded answer for is correct: Offit treats market clustering as evidence for market spillover.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 2h ago
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Why Evolution Is True on March 29, 2023 reproduces this Paul Offit passage verbatim about the Huanan market cluster and spillover odds.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 2h ago
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Why Evolution Is True reproduces Paul Offit's Beyond the Noise argument and contains this Huanan-market cluster passage.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 2h ago
replying to Paul Offit