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Comment by Jessica McDonald

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FactCheck.org staff writer covering misinformation and public claims
There is no certainty about the coronavirus's origin; several lines of scientific evidence point to a natural origin, and the lab leak theory remains unproved.
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Jessica McDonald, "Trump Administration Incorrectly Claims Certainty About Origin of Coronavirus," FactCheck.org, May 23, 2025.
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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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 FactCheck.org says the coronavirus origin is unknown, scientific evidence points to natural origin, and lab leak remains unproved, but the stored sentence is a paraphrased composite rather than verbatim text. Correct source/date/author remain Jessica McDonald, FactCheck.org, 2025-05-23. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 1h ago
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