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| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | Covid-19

The origin of the COVID-19 pandemic has sparked much debate, and various hypotheses have been put forward.

The origin of the COVID-19 pandemic has sparked much debate, and various hypotheses have been put forward.

"My colleagues and I have examined the issue with an open mind, taking into account all possible hypotheses. The laboratory origin hypothesis was legitimate and deserved to be investigated," Florence Débarre, a research director at French National Center for Scientific Research at the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences in Paris, France, told the Medscape French edition. Nevertheless, research carried out as part of a large international collaboration points more toward an animal origin at the Wuhan market in China. (Medscape, USA, 27.09.2024)

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/species-possibly-responsible-covid-pandemic-identified-2024a1000hjj