2 major scientific studies point to a market in Wuhan, China as birthplace of COVID-19

[Nevilledog]

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Breaking News: Two major scientific studies point to a market in Wuhan, China — not a lab in the same city — as the birthplace of the coronavirus pandemic. https://nyti.ms/3IpGBmg
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12:53 PM · Feb 26, 2022

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Scientists released a pair of extensive studies on Saturday that point to a market in Wuhan, China, as the origin of the coronavirus pandemic. The two reports, totaling about 150 pages, have not yet been published in a scientific journal.

The researchers analyzed data from a range of sources to look for clues to how the pandemic arose. They concluded that the coronavirus was present in live mammals sold in the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in late 2019. The research suggests that the virus very likely twice spilled over into people working or shopping at the market. The researchers said they found no support for an alternate hypothesis that the coronavirus escaped from a lab 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 Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona and a co-author of both studies.

The authors of the new study include researchers who previously published smaller reports that had pointed towards a similar conclusion, but based on much less detail.

Many of the first cases of Covid-19 clustered around the Huanan market. By the end of December 2019, hospitals in Wuhan had found dozens of cases of viral pneumonia.


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2 studies:

SARS-CoV-2 emergence very likely resulted from at least two zoonotic events
https://zenodo.org/record/6291628#.YhquIS9lDxw

The Huanan market was the epicenter of SARS-CoV-2 emergence
https://zenodo.org/record/6299600#.Yhqufy9lDxw

[exboyfil]

1. That is still quite a coincidence

That a lab with a long track record of working with viruses of this type happens to be in the same city as the outbreak. That is unless the lab location was selected for that very reason.

The obfuscation by the Chinese government hasn't helped the situation. Will governments ever learn to stop that crap?

[Nevilledog]

2. So I'm guessing no amount of studies will convince you?

[exboyfil]

3. I don't know

The Chinese may have made it impossible to get at the truth of the situation. Kind of like the Kennedy assassination. Several lab workers have been verified as those exposed early in November. The market is 20-30 minutes by train from the lab.



https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/wuhan-lab-staff-sought-hospital-care-before-covid-19-outbreak-disclosed-wsj-2021-05-23/

[MarcA]

7. Good points. Wait for peer review. n/t

[yardwork]

4. It's not a coincidence. Wuhan has been a hot spot for coronaviruses for years.

That's why the lab is there. And it's not just the Chinese government that has been studying coronaviruses in Wuhan. Researchers all over the world have been studying coronaviruses in Wuhan for decades. They predicted that eventually one would jump from animals to humans in this region.

The lab is there to study the viruses, not create them.

[kimbutgar]

5. Just like in that movie Contagion

I watched that movie twice and saw how the virus spread.

[orwell]

6. Another coverup...

...Isn't it obvious. The deep state faked the data so that the real culprit - reptilian democrat pedophiles - were able to hide their pizzagate porn portals from Putin and Drumpf, who were cleaning out the swamp, by deep faking Hunter Biden's laptop filled with Jeffrey Epstein's underage contact list of Orion human-hybrid sex drones!

And you are buying this obvious metaverse "scientific" study?

Get a brain Moran!

Set your Qverse decoder ring to BitCoin666 and wait for further instructions...

and DO THE RESEARCH!

[WHITT]

8. Except

they omitted the documented evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was in Europe MONTHS before the first instance anywhere in China.

Oh well, the propaganda parade rolls on.