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Virologist and professor at Duke-NUS Medical School specializing in bat-borne viruses and emerging infectious diseases.
I am more convinced than ever that SARS-CoV-2 has a natural origin.
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Linfa Wang, quoted in Nature, September 30, 2021.
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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AI Verified Explicitly endorses a natural SARS-CoV-2 origin, opposing a lab-related origin. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago
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AI Verified Nature PDF attributes this exact wording to Linfa Wang. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago
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