COVID-origins data from Wuhan market published: what scientists think

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Chinese researchers have published an eagerly awaited analysis of swabs collected at the wet market in Wuhan that has long been linked to the start of the pandemic — as well as the underlying data.

The latest report lends weight to one of the two competing theories about how the COVID-19 pandemic’s origins. Debate has raged over whether the pandemic had a natural origin, with a virus passing from animals to humans, or arose from a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The findings support the natural-origin hypothesis, says a researcher who was not involved in either study and wishes to remain anonymous owing to the controversy surrounding COVID-origins work. The presence of many wild-animal species means that a viral spillover that resulted in the COVID-19 pandemic could have occurred, says the scientist. Some of those species, such as raccoon dogs, have the potential to transmit SARS-CoV-2 infections, the source adds.

The strange results could be from laboratory contamination, or improper processing of the data that failed to weed out spurious species identifications, says Hughes. “We must be exceedingly careful with interpreting or putting too much faith in the paper.”

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This covid 19 origin from a fish market.Old meat have any kind of bad effects on humans.Actually this is a old meat origin or spontaneously.Ok.Sneha.A Poast Graduate.from Ekm.

Did everyone already forget how they said it came from a lab that studied bats and covid just a few miles away from said market and how one of the female scientists tried to expose it all but ended up coming up missing before she could get out a china. Like fck wake up people

it will never end the debates once non-science people are involved in the debates.

So …. 🤷‍♂️

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