Gkikas Magiorkinis on COVID-19 originated from a lab-related …

Gkikas Magiorkinis

Assistant professor of hygiene and epidemiology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Closely related coronaviruses have been retrieved from animals such as bats and pangolins which makes the scenario of naturally occurring evolution far more likely than any scenario of laboratory manipulation.

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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover

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AI Verified The quote explicitly says natural evolution is far more likely than laboratory manipulation. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Quote says naturally occurring evolution is far more likely than laboratory manipulation. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Science Media Centre, 15 Sep 2020, attributes this wording to Dr Gkikas Magiorkinis. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover

Thus, to sum-up, closely related coronaviruses have been retrieved from animals such as bats and pangolins which makes the scenario of naturally occurring evolution far more likely than any scenario of laboratory manipulation. In fact we have clear h...

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