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Comment by Paolo Vineis

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Public health researcher and journal editor who commented on COVID-19 origins debate publications.
It was a potentially controversial article that had the merit of opening up a new perspective on the topic.
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Paolo Vineis, quoted in William Audureau, “Covid-19: How a group of amateur investigators pushed the lab-leak theory,” Le Monde, February 18, 2025.
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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AI Verified Le Monde says Vineis was commenting on a paper advancing the lab-leak hypothesis, so the quote is directly on the origins debate. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 20d ago
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AI Verified Vineis is commenting on a paper suggesting a possible zoonotic origin from a Yunnan mineshaft; in context, that supports the natural-origin side and is against the lab-related incident statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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AI Verified Le Monde quotes Paolo Vineis with this exact wording about the article opening a new perspective; stored text matches the source and attribution. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 20d ago
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