Two new studies “offer further evidence that the coronavirus originated in animals and spread to humans in late 2019 at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China,” CNN reported on Saturday, February 26, 2022 (read story here).
These are preprint studies, not yet peer-reviewed or published, CNN noted.
One of these studies “used spatial analysis to show that the earliest known Covid-19 cases, diagnosed in December 2019, were centered on the market. The researchers also report that environmental samples that tested positive for the virus, SARS-CoV-2, were strongly associated with live-animal vendors,” CNN said. “The other study says the two major viral lineages were the result of at least two events in which the virus crossed species into humans.”
CNN notes, “Many of the researchers behind the new studies were also participants in a review published last summer that said the pandemic almost certainly originated with an animal, probably at a wildlife market.” And, CNN says, “Experts have roundly condemned the theory of a laboratory origin for the virus, saying that there’s no proof of such origins or of a leak.”
You can believe science, or believe what you hear on Joe Rogan’s show, but not both at the same time. If you prefer science to the idle speculation of media personalities, you can find these studies here and here.
Photo: The Wuhan wet market
