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Veterinarian and virologist; former director general of the Institut Pasteur and researcher on emerging viruses.
We are reduced to drawing up a list of the species present, without ever being able to demonstrate that the virus originated in one of these animals, or even that one of them amplified it.
AI Verified (Sep 19, 2024)
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Marc Eloit, quoted by Hervé Morin, “Covid-19 : une étude précise la présence à Wuhan, en 2019, d’animaux potentiellement vecteurs du SARS-CoV-2,” Le Monde, September 19, 2024. Faithful English translation from French.
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The clustering of early cases around the Huanan market reflects where the COVID-19 virus emerged, not just where testing looked
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AI Verified Questions whether market-animal evidence demonstrates viral origin or amplification, directly opposing the market-origin inference. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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AI Verified Questions whether evidence can demonstrate market origin or amplification, opposing the asserted market-origin inference. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Le Monde’s 19 Sep 2024 report attributes this faithful English rendering to Marc Eloit. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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