COVID-19 tied to wildlife sales at Chinese market; alternative scenarios extremely unlikely


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Analyses based on locations and viral genome sequencing of early COVID-19 cases show the pandemic started in Wuhan’s Huanan market in late 2019. Researchers, including Professor David L Roberson at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR), have confirmed that live animals sold at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market were the likely source of the COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed 6.4 million lives since it began in late 2019. Led by Michael Worobey at the University of Arizona and Kristian Andersen at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, the international team of researchers have conclusively traced the...