O-41 - In the balanced n=70 wildlife-stall set human mtDNA was uncorrelated with viral RNA while Malayan porcupine and Himalayan marmot mtDNA were significantly positively correlated
The authors restrict the correlation to the 70 January-12 wildlife-stall samples (a balanced subset, all sequenced irrespective of positivity) rather than the full sequenced set. Human mtDNA does not track the virus; porcupine and marmot do (reflecting their concentration in stall A). Notably raccoon dog itself is not among the significantly positively-correlated species here. Same D-1 data that S-39 (Bloom) analyses with the opposite emphasis.
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Why this is evidence
Human mtDNA not tracking the virus while wildlife (porcupine, marmot) mtDNA does is against human deposition (H-15) and for a wildlife source (H-14).