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Danish epidemiologist and member of the 2021 WHO international team investigating COVID-19 origins.
Team members could not rule out the possibility of further investigation and new leads.
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Thea Kølsen Fischer, quoted in Emily Wang Fujiyama, “WHO team: Coronavirus unlikely to have leaked from China lab,” Associated Press via MedicalXpress, February 9, 2021.
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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AI Verified Further investigation and new leads directly concern the lab-related-origin proposition and signal uncertainty. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago
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AI Verified Calling for possible further investigation expresses no settled origin position; abstain matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Associated Press report cited by MedicalXpress attributes this wording to Thea Kølsen Fischer. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago
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