Scholarly Comments on Academic Economics

An Article in Science on Wet-Market Covid Origins is Unreliable

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Abstract

An influential paper by Worobey et al. published in Science in 2022 claimed that case locations and nucleic acid samples showed that SARS-CoV-2 had first been introduced to humans at the Huanan Seafood Market. Several lines of evidence suggest the introduction to humans was earlier and elsewhere.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23111642

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Volume (Issue)
Pages
288–310
Published
JEL classification
I18, I38
Keywords
SARS-CoV-2 origins, spatial statistics, collider stratification bias, population structure, epidemiology
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