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Comment by William Schaffner

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Infectious-disease specialist and professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Academic molecular biologists are of this position, that this was a natural event, just as the other two coronavirus transmissions from wild species to humans were: first SARS, and then MERS.
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Mary Kekatos, “What the 'lab leak' theory report about COVID's origins does and doesn't mean,” ABC News, February 27, 2023.
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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 characterizes COVID-19 as a natural event, making opposition to the lab-incident statement substantially more likely. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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AI Verified Schaffner calls COVID-19 a natural event, so he opposes the lab-incident proposition; recorded against answer matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Exact wording is attributed to Dr. William Schaffner in ABC News’s February 27, 2023 article. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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