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Comment by Nikolai Petrovsky

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Professor of medicine and director of endocrinology at Flinders Medical Centre and Flinders University.
Ultimately, without any proper and thorough investigation having been conducted, the origins of COVID-19 remain a completely open question.
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Nikolai Petrovsky, quoted in “Debating the origins of the COVID-19 virus: What we know, what we don’t know,” PolitiFact, May 17, 2021.
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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AI Verified Quote explicitly treats COVID-19 origins as unresolved, supporting an abstaining stance on the lab-versus-natural claim. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 3mo ago
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AI Verified Quote says COVID-19 origins remain open; recorded abstain answer matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified PolitiFact attributes this wording verbatim to Nikolai Petrovsky. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 3mo ago
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