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Comment by Christian Drosten

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Virologist and coauthor of the 2026 Nature commentary on COVID-19 origins
This idea of a research accident is extremely unlikely for me because it would be far too cumbersome.
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Christian Drosten quoted by Xinhua/People’s Daily Online, “COVID-19 leak from Wuhan lab ‘extremely unlikely’: German virologist,” June 10, 2021.
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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AI Verified Drosten calls a research-accident origin extremely unlikely, directly opposing the lab-incident claim. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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AI Verified Calling a research accident extremely unlikely matches against. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Xinhua/People's Daily report attributes this verbatim wording to Christian Drosten. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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