Scientists released a pair of extensive studies Saturday that point to a market in Wuhan, China, as the origin of the coronavirus pandemic. Analyzing data from a variety of sources, they concluded that the coronavirus was in late 2019 and suggested that the . They said they found no support for an alternate theory that the coronavirus escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan.
¡°When you look at all of the evidence together, it¡¯s an extraordinarily clear picture that the pandemic started at the Huanan market,¡± said , an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona and a co-author of both studies.
The two reports have not yet been published in a scientific journal that would require undergoing peer review.
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