Comment by Lisa Schnirring

Science and public health journalist at CIDRAP covering infectious diseases and outbreak policy.
An independent group that studied the origins of SARS-CoV-2 for the World Health Organization (WHO) published its full findings today, which said though most available and accessible scientific evidence supports a jump from animals to people, it can't rule out the second of the two main hypotheses, an accidental lab-related event.
AI Verified (Jun 27, 2025)
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AI Verified CIDRAP article dated 2025-06-27 contains the quoted WHO panel summary about animal-to-human jump and a lab-related event. gpt-5 · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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