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H-21 - The Huanan market was the early epicenter of the pandemic via the live-wildlife trade

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H-21
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Was the Huanan market the geographic origin/early epicenter of the pandemic (rather than a lab or another location)?
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SARS-CoV-2 emerged into humans via the live-wildlife trade at the Huanan Seafood Market, which was the geographic epicenter of the earliest COVID-19 cases.
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H-14 - The market environmental pattern reflects wildlife-associated emergence at the Huanan market
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S-17 - Worobey et al. 2022 Science — geolocated case map naming the Huanan market the early epicenter
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Abstract; Discussion; conclusions
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Our analyses indicate that the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 occurred via the live wildlife trade in China, and show that the Huanan market was the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The paper’s headline conclusion, resting jointly on the case-geography clustering (D-2) and the environmental positives at a live-mammal stall (D-1). It is the direct target of the Stoyan/Chiu and Weissman methods critiques in this slice.

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