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Evolutionary biologist, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
I also demonstrate clear evidence of bias among the earliest available sequences, and explain why the root of the SARS-CoV-2 tree cannot be conclusively resolved with the current data.
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Jesse D. Bloom, "The Data are Insufficient to Confidently Root the SARS-CoV-2 Phylogenetic Tree," Molecular Biology and Evolution, June 9, 2025.
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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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AI Verified Bloom’s quote about insufficient data to root the tree, together with the paper’s market-bias context, directly addresses whether early Huanan-market clustering shows the true emergence site. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 7s ago
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AI Verified Bloom's June 9, 2025 Molecular Biology and Evolution abstract contains the stored sentence verbatim and attributes it to Jesse D. Bloom. model: gpt-5-codex · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 1h ago
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