Research team says COVID-19 originated at Wuhan market


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Leave a Comment An international research team that included a UCLA professor of biostatistics concluded in research published Tuesday that the COVID-19 pandemic originated at a wholesale market in Wuhan, China, where at least two instances of the virus being passed from live animals to humans were detected. “Rigorously combining all available evidence surrounding the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 clearly demonstrates that the virus jumped at least twice from animals to humans at the Huanan market,” Dr. Marc Suchard, UCLA Fielding School professor of biostatistics, said in a statement. “Identifying multiple transmission events finally puts to rest a single origin from...