Marion Koopmans

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Dutch virologist

Speaks on: COVID-19 Origins FLF Epistack Health Public Health Research Policy

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Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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It is a virus that in this case came from animals and then spread among people. We do not know exactly how that happened.
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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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There are already clusters of identical viruses in two other provinces in China. There is some literature from outside of China, particularly in Europe, that is suggestive of earlier circulation, although the methodologies there really need some scru...
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