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Medium writer who published a detailed November 2025 response arguing against lab-leak claims in the COVID-19 origins debate.
In that context, the failure to isolate SARS-CoV-2 from a few hundred belated samples is exactly what you’d expect under a zoonotic origin, not a smoking gun against it.
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otw2, "Response to 'Untangling the Web — A 2025 Update on COVID Origins'," Medium, November 17, 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 a zoonotic origin is expected and rejects a lab-leak reading, so it is on-topic for the lab-vs-natural statement. model:gpt-5.4-mini · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.4-mini · 1h ago
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AI Verified The quote says a zoonotic origin is exactly what the evidence would expect, so against the lab-related-incident statement is correct. model:gpt-5.4-mini · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.4-mini · 59min ago

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AI Verified Medium article by otw2 on Nov 17, 2025 contains the same sentence and argues natural zoonotic origin; quote matches the source. model:gpt-5.4-mini · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.4-mini · 1h ago
AI Verified Medium article by otw2 on Nov 17, 2025 contains the same sentence and argues natural zoonotic origin; quote matches the source. model:gpt-5.4-mini · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.4-mini · 1h ago
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