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New genetic research points to Wuhan animal market as origin of COVID pandemic, study says
3 months ago

New genetic research points to Wuhan animal market as origin of COVID pandemic, study says

LA Times  

A convoy of vehicles carrying investigators from the World Health Organization enters the interior of the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China, early in the COVID-19 pandemic. “This paper has more evidence that supports the animal origin through the Huanan market.” The analysis published Thursday was based on genetic data gleaned from hundreds of samples gathered in and around the …

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COVID-19: Why we're looking for the pandemic's origin
9 months, 1 week ago

COVID-19: Why we're looking for the pandemic's origin

Hindustan Times  

Discovering COVID's origin will shape the next pandemic. Some experts say it's possible that the Wuhan lab had progenitor strains — ancestors — of SARS-CoV-2, but China's alleged withholding information on the origin of COVID makes this impossible to prove or disprove. "Every form of the lab leak theory involves some sort of cover up, which to me means that …

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SARS-CoV-2 virus not found in animal samples from Huanan seafood market, says study
1 year, 8 months ago

SARS-CoV-2 virus not found in animal samples from Huanan seafood market, says study

The Hindu  

An analysis of environmental and animal samples for SARS-CoV-2 in the Huanan seafood market, Wuhan, China, in early 2020, detected the virus in environmental swabs but not in samples taken from animals, according to a study published in Nature on April 5. George F. Gao and colleagues from China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention, who carried out the study …

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WHO calls on China to be transparent in sharing data to determine Covid\'s origins
1 year, 9 months ago

WHO calls on China to be transparent in sharing data to determine Covid\'s origins

Deccan Chronicle  

United Nations/Geneva: The WHO has criticised China for withholding data related to samples taken at a market in Wuhan in 2020 that could have provided vital information about the Covid-19 pandemic's origins, calling on Beijing to be transparent and to share results of investigations it conducts. “The data, from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, relates to samples …

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New COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market
1 year, 9 months ago

New COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Genetic material collected at a …

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New COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market
1 year, 9 months ago

New COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market

LA Times  

Raccoon dogs are seen at a cage in Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo. International scientists who examined previously unavailable genetic data from samples collected at a Wuhan, China, market said they found suggestions the pandemic originated in raccoon dogs, not in a lab. Genetic material collected at a Chinese market near where the first human cases of COVID-19 were identified show raccoon …

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Three years later, what we know: How did COVID start?
1 year, 9 months ago

Three years later, what we know: How did COVID start?

Al Jazeera  

Three years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, questions linger about the origins of the virus that shut down borders, forced humanity into their homes, battered economies and killed millions of people. In early February, the US Department of Energy’s intelligence agency said with “low confidence” that it believed the virus originated from …

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Opinion: I called for more research on the COVID ‘lab leak theory.’ Here’s what I found out
1 year, 9 months ago

Opinion: I called for more research on the COVID ‘lab leak theory.’ Here’s what I found out

LA Times  

Security guards stand in front of the closed Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan on Jan. 11, 2020, the day Chinese authorities said a 61-year-old man had died from a respiratory illness believed to have been caused by the novel coronavirus. I tabled all my other research to try to falsify the hypothesis that the pandemic began at one of …

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The latest in the COVID 'lab leak' theory: What we know and don't know about the origins of the pandemic
1 year, 9 months ago

The latest in the COVID 'lab leak' theory: What we know and don't know about the origins of the pandemic

Firstpost  

Washington: The US Energy Department’s conclusion, with “low confidence,” that an accidental laboratory leak in China most likely caused the coronavirus pandemic has renewed questions about what sparked the worst public health crisis in a century — and whether the virus at the heart of it was somehow connected to scientific research. Scientists who have studied the genetics of the …

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What does the science say about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic?
1 year, 9 months ago

What does the science say about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic?

NPR  

What does the science say about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic? Enlarge this image toggle caption Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images Since the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic began three years ago, its origin has been a topic of much scientific — and political — debate. Enlarge this image toggle caption Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images Noel …

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Column: ProPublica and Vanity Fair are pushing the COVID lab-leak theory, but their exposé is a train wreck
2 years, 1 month ago

Column: ProPublica and Vanity Fair are pushing the COVID lab-leak theory, but their exposé is a train wreck

LA Times  

Security personnel near the entrance to the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team in February 2021. between a group of virologists who assert their research points to a market origin and an alternate group of academics and online sleuths who argue there’s been an attempted coverup of a more likely lab origin.” The …

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Explained | What do we know about COVID-19’s origins?
2 years, 4 months ago

Explained | What do we know about COVID-19’s origins?

The Hindu  

The story so far: A paper in Science Magazine, published on July 26, contained a post- facto analysis that the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 occurred via the live wildlife trade in China and established the Huanan market in Wuhan as the epicentre of the pandemic. During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, the dominant hypothesis was that animals sold at …

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Did Covid emerge in notorious wet market after all? Two explosive new studies suggest so
2 years, 4 months ago

Did Covid emerge in notorious wet market after all? Two explosive new studies suggest so

Daily Mail  

Fierce debate about the origins of the Covid pandemic was reignited today after two new studies claimed to trace the outbreak back to a notorious animal slaughter market in Wuhan. Positive swab samples of floors, cages and counters also track the virus back to stalls in the southwestern corner of the market, where animals with the potential to harbour Covid …

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New studies say Wuhan market is the only ‘plausible’ source of COVID-19 pandemic
2 years, 4 months ago

New studies say Wuhan market is the only ‘plausible’ source of COVID-19 pandemic

LA Times  

Not long after the World Health Organization and China released a report last year dismissing the possibility that the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated in a lab leak, scientists from major research institutions around the world noted the paucity of the published data, and advocated for a rigorous scientific investigation into the pandemic’s origins. “In a city covering more than 3,000 square …

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Pandemic mystery: Scientists focus on COVID’s animal origins
3 years ago

Pandemic mystery: Scientists focus on COVID’s animal origins

Associated Press  

Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the origin of the virus tormenting the world remains shrouded in mystery. “The lab-leak scenario gets a lot of attention, you know, on places like Twitter,” but “there’s no evidence that this virus was in a lab,” said University of Utah scientist Stephen Goldstein, who with 20 others wrote an article in the …

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Pandemic mystery: Scientists focus on covid’s animal origins
3 years ago

Pandemic mystery: Scientists focus on covid’s animal origins

Live Mint  

Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the origin of the virus tormenting the world remains shrouded in mystery. “The lab-leak scenario gets a lot of attention, you know, on places like Twitter,” but “there’s no evidence that this virus was in a lab,” said University of Utah scientist Stephen Goldstein, who with 20 others wrote an article in the …

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Seafood vendor at animal market in China's Wuhan was first known COVID-19 case: Study
3 years, 1 month ago

Seafood vendor at animal market in China's Wuhan was first known COVID-19 case: Study

India TV News  

The first confirmed case of symptomatic COVID-19 can be traced to a female seafood vendor at a wholesale food market in China's Wuhan, not an accountant who lived far away, according to a new study which points out that the WHO inquiry into the origins of the deadly disease may have got the early chronology of the pandemic wrong. “His …

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First known Covid-19 case was vendor in China's animal market in Wuhan: Study
3 years, 1 month ago

First known Covid-19 case was vendor in China's animal market in Wuhan: Study

India Today  

The first confirmed case of symptomatic Covid-19 can be traced to a female seafood vendor at a wholesale food market in China's Wuhan, not an accountant who lived far away, according to a new study which points out that the WHO inquiry into the origins of the deadly disease may have got the early chronology of the pandemic wrong. “His …

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Fresh look at earliest COVID cases points to live-animal market as most likely source
3 years, 1 month ago

Fresh look at earliest COVID cases points to live-animal market as most likely source

LA Times  

The Wuhan Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market sits closed on Jan. 21, 2020. But Scripps Institution microbiologist Kristian Andersen, who has long argued that an animal spillover was more likely than a lab leak, lauded Worobey’s research for “uncovering several new key insights.” The collective evidence “clearly points to the Huanan Market as a very likely source of the origin of …

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A timeline of COVID-19’s first weeks in Wuhan
3 years, 1 month ago

A timeline of COVID-19’s first weeks in Wuhan

LA Times  

Sometime in the waning days of 2019, a novel coronavirus began spreading in the Chinese city of Wuhan. It would take several weeks for local doctors and health officials to realize the new virus was responsible for a spate of mysterious cases of a pneumonia-like illness that did not respond to standard treatments. As physicians at various hospitals treated a …

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Not December, first case of Covid-19 could have emerged as early as October 2019: Study
3 years, 6 months ago

Not December, first case of Covid-19 could have emerged as early as October 2019: Study

India Today  

The world first came to know about a mysterious outbreak in China on the New Year eve of 2020. Now, a new study claims that the virus that causes Covid-19 started spreading in China as early as October 2019, two months before it was first reported in Wuhan province. The first official case of Covid-19 reported in China was in …

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Coronavirus origin: After more than a year of the pandemic what we know so far
3 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus origin: After more than a year of the pandemic what we know so far

Live Mint  

More than a year after Covid-19 touched off the worst pandemic in more than a century, scientists have yet to determine its origins. Scientists involved in the WHO-led mission identified four, which they ranked in order of likelihood: LIKELY-TO-VERY LIKELY: the virus spilled over via an “intermediary” host species; POSSIBLE-TO-LIKELY: the virus spilled over to humans directly from an animal …

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Surprising Nuggets From The WHO Report: Our Science Correspondent Digs In
3 years, 8 months ago

Surprising Nuggets From The WHO Report: Our Science Correspondent Digs In

NPR  

Surprising Nuggets From The WHO Report: Our Science Correspondent Digs In Enlarge this image toggle caption Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images This week, the World Health Organization finally released its long-awaited report about its investigation into how and where the COVID-19 pandemic began. An "explosive outbreak began in Wuhan in early December 2019" Buried deep …

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World Health Organization gets closer to figuring out where COVID-19 came from
3 years, 8 months ago

World Health Organization gets closer to figuring out where COVID-19 came from

Salon  

The World Health Organization released a 120 page report on Tuesday which argues that the COVID-19 pandemic most likely began at animal markets, though President Joe Biden's administration raised questions about its conclusions. As the WHO's Peter Ben Embarek told the scientific journal Nature, "we could show the virus was circulating in the market as early as December 2019." "I …

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