Two scientific studies, to which
The New York Times
has had access , conclude that the
coronavirus
was present in live mammals that were sold in the wholesale seafood market in the city of
Wuhan
, in China, at the end of 2019 and that the
Covid
spread to their workers.
The researchers said they found no support for an alternative hypothesis that the
coronavirus
escaped from a laboratory in
Wuhan
.
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Two new scientific studies conclude that the Covid pandemic began in Huanan market
Two scientific studies conclude that the
coronavirus
was present in live mammals that were sold in the wholesale seafood market in the city of
Wuhan
, in China, at the end of 2019 and that it spread to its workers, according to the
New York published this Saturday.
Times
.
For these two studies, which together have 150 pages and have not yet been published in scientific journals, data from a variety of sources were analyzed to look for clues about how the
pandemic
arose , and rule out that it came from a laboratory, adds the newspaper. .
"The geographic clustering of the earliest known cases of
Covid-19
and the proximity of positive environmental samples to live animal vendors suggest that the
Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market
in Wuhan was the place of origin of the pandemic," the scientists note. the study.
The researchers said they found no support for an alternative hypothesis that the
coronavirus
escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan.
"When you look at all the evidence together, it's an extraordinarily clear picture that the
pandemic
started in the Huanan market," says the University of Arizona evolutionary biologist and co-author of both studies.
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