O-29 - 923 Huanan-market environmental samples yielded 73 SARS-CoV-2 positives (3 isolates), with positives clustering at aquatic-cold-chain-meat vendor stalls

The same China-CDC Huanan-market environmental sampling campaign later released metagenomically and re-analysed by S-35 (Crits-Christoph) and S-39 (Bloom) — hence D-1. Positives concentrate on surfaces of product-selling stalls and drains/sewers. The report frames the contamination as “compatible with introduction of the virus through infected people, infected animals or contaminated products”, and its conclusion leans to human shedding.

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Why this is evidence

Positives concentrating at aquatic/cold-chain/meat stalls rather than the wildlife stalls fits an externally-introduced (cold-chain or human-shed) amplifier (H-15) better than a live-wildlife spillover concentrated at wildlife stalls (H-14).