Two new studies have provided more evidence that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a market where live animals were sold in Wuhan, China.One study mapped the estimated locations of more than 150 of the earliest reported COVID-19 casesA second study found two lineages marked the pandemic's beginning
The authors conclude that the virus that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, likely crossed over from animals into people on two separate occasions. In one study, which incorporated data collected by Chinese scientists, University of Arizona evolutionary biologist Michael Worobey and his colleagues used mapping tools to estimate the locations of more than 150 of the earliest reported COVID-19 cases from December 2019.They also mapped cases from January and February 2020 using data from a social media app that had created a channel for people with COVID-19 to get help.
"Crucially, this applies both to all cases in December and also to cases with no known link to the market ... And this is an indication that the virus started spreading in people who worked at the market but then started to spread into the local community."He said the clustering was "very, very specifically in the parts of the market" where people were selling wildlife, such as raccoon dogs, that are susceptible to infection with the coronavirus.
So "barriers to spillover have been lowered such that multiple introductions, we believe, should actually be expected," he said.
Of course it did conspiracy people will not be pleased at all 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Many people still believe it came from here...
wuhanvirus
WHO / China supplied social media data as evidence of where people were who contracted the disease ... anyone else think this is the least scientific paper ever? Lies, damn lies, and statistics based from sources with vested interests. Why did the lab database go off line?
Time to stop with your propaganda and conspiracy theories abc
Seriously, abc reports this propaganda after what’s happened in past 2 years?
But was going in northern Italy three months earlier. But that doesn't suit the anti China brigade There's also evidence it was USA made
So now we know more but what will change . Certainly no one is going to make China change its behaviour.
US funded Wuhan lab Gain of Function research.
Even if you could trust anything you read in the MSM, if you stop to think for a moment. Of all the cities in the world, this virus comes out of one that just happens to have a lab that studies viruses like this. From the market just up the road, what are the chances?
I bet Sharri Markson will have something to say. Remember her 'Internationally Acclaimed' (well, America, well Fox and other NewsLtd sites) report. It was true, she told us so. Created in a lab, by leftists.
No one Trusts China - start there!
Jfc make up your minds...this is exactly why nut jobs can create doubt in people's minds.
Yep good old Australian Bullshit Corporation - anything but the truth
More lies from the ABC.. we all know that where it really came from. Same with masks.. show us the peer review study that they stop a virus.
We all know where it came from and it was not the seafood market.
I thought you were a 'racist' if you believed this? Has this been removed from the wrongthink list?
Liars$.
Here we go. The old blame fkn crap. Evidently you've misplaced another vile.
I was told it came from Chinese scientists eating sick dogs? Geez I hope that was wrong and this new theory is true.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology is only a short distance from the wildlife market. The job of the lab was of course to stop exactly what has happened: the spreading of the virus and its escape to the world. The failure is only too obvious Covid19 Mark_Butler_MP
FYI Recent discoveries of skeletons from 1300's on the Chinese Silk Road to Europe linked to the Bubonic Plague. Just saying
Wow West Taiwan will get snooty over that. Watch out for stern State media rebuke
And we are expected believe that now … after they were shown to be, what is the word “colluding” first time round they said that to supposedly cover up gain of function funding and work concerns?
ABC now running interference for the Chinese Communist Party.
I'm not even going to bother reading this article. China knew, either way, could well have stopped it too. But typical communists lie, there is no truth and now we ALL pay.
Given that China destroyed the crucial evidence, this study is just more arse-covering garbage from a complicit scientific establishment. ChinaLiedPeopleDied
Just how naive are ABC 😂😂🤦
A reminder that after the virus was detected in Wuhan the Chinese govt still allowed international flights out of the city, spreading the virus globally and causing the deaths of millions of people. China has never accpeted responsibility or shown regret.
Nah. A guy had sex with a pangolin. Its the only theory that makes sense.