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Abdullah Assiri

Public-health official and coauthor of the 2026 Nature commentary on COVID-19 origins

We also know that the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan had a significant role in the early transmission and initial spread of the virus. These animals could have been the intermediate hosts that brought the virus to the market, leading to the early cases in humans.

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Abdullah Assiri, coauthor of "COVID’s origins: what we do and don’t know," Nature, February 24, 2026.

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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover

In the 78-page document, we determined that most of the peer-reviewed scientific evidence supports the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 has a zoonotic origin, meaning that it came from an animal. But until requests for additional information are met or mor...

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