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COVID-origins data from Wuhan market published: what scientists think

First peer-reviewed analysis of the Chinese swabs confirms animal DNA was present in samples that tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.
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Researchers at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) have published an eagerly awaited analysis1 of swabs collected at a wet market in Wuhan, China, in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic — as well as the underlying data, which the international research community has been calling for since the beginning of the outbreak.

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Nature 616, 225-226 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00998-y

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  1. Liu, W. J. et al. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06043-2 (2023).

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