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Comment by Ethan Siegel

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Astrophysicist and science writer who publishes Starts With A Bang! on Medium and Big Think.
For a very long time, after speaking with an enormous number of virologists and experts in related, adjacent fields, I’ve been someone who’s asserted that we can be certain that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, definitively spilled over from a wet market in China into the human population.
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Ethan Siegel, "Ask Ethan: Couldn’t COVID-19 have originated in a Chinese Lab?", Starts With A Bang!/Medium, April 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 The quote explicitly says SARS-CoV-2 definitively spilled over from a wet market, making the stance on the lab-vs-natural statement clear. model:gpt-5.4-mini · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.4-mini · 1h ago
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AI Verified The quote says SARS-CoV-2 definitively spilled over from a wet market in China, so against the lab-related-incident statement is correct. model:gpt-5.4-mini · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.4-mini · 58min ago

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AI Verified Medium article by Ethan Siegel on Apr 18, 2025 says he is certain SARS-CoV-2 spilled over from a wet market in China; quote matches the source. model:gpt-5.4-mini · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.4-mini · 1h ago
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