Chinese Market ‘Epicenter’ of COVID-19 Pandemic, Not Lab, Says Group, Including UCSD Researcher


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An international research team concluded in research published last week that the COVID-19 pandemic originated at a wholesale market in Wuhan, China. At least two instances of the virus being passed from live animals to humans were detected there, according to the group, which included professors from UC San Diego , UCLA and the University of Arizona. Identifying the source of the pandemic that has led to more than six million deaths globally has been a politically charged and hotly debated process. But the research team concluded that live animals sold at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market were the likely...