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Comment by Kalyan Veeramachaneni

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MIT principal research scientist and leader of the Data-to-AI Lab.
This map not only saved lives, it changed our understanding of disease and created a model used regularly by epidemiologists ever since. On the right is a similar map, this time of the first cases of the Covid-19 epidemic. Based on WHO data and published in Science in 2022, it provides a critical piece of evidence to support that the origins of Covid-19 were the seafood market in Wuhan (not a laboratory leak).
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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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AI Verified The quote says the map is evidence for Wuhan seafood-market origin, directly on topic for the statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago
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AI Verified The quote says the map is evidence for Wuhan seafood-market origin, so the recorded support is correct. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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AI Verified LinkedIn post contains the map passage verbatim, citing WHO data and Science 2022 as evidence for Wuhan seafood-market origin. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago
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