Advisory Board March 20, 2023
For the last three years, the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a topic of debate. Now, new data of environmental samples collected at a seafood and meat market in Wuhan, China suggests that raccoon dogs being illegally sold at the market may have been the source of SARS-CoV-2.
What new data shows about the origins of COVID-19
In February 2022, Chinese scientists released a study looking at the samples collected from the Wuhan market and argued that the samples that were positive for the coronavirus came from infected people rather than animals sold in the market.
However, in January, the researchers released the sample data on an open-access genomic data base called GISAID. It was then that Florence...
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