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Research institute studying global catastrophic risks, including pandemics and biorisk.
The study’s experts overall stated that the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated via a natural zoonotic event, defined as an event in which a non-human animal infected a human, and in which the infection did not occur in the course of any form of virological or biomedical research.
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Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, “The Origin and Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Expert Survey,” February 2, 2024.
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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