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[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

I thought this as well (massive safety events being a pretty normal thing, after all) until last year when the wet market swab data was finally analyzed. (After apparently being leaked? Accidentally? Accidentally on purpose?)

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715

"Both early lineages of SARS-CoV-2 were geographically associated with the market"