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A new peer-reviewed research paper points to the likelihood that the COVID-19 pandemic originated at a seafood and wildlife market in Wuhan, China, rather than from a Chinese laboratory studying bat viruses.... The patients either worked at the market or had friends or other contacts who did, some of whom has visited their homes.... For even early cases not directly linked to the market to arise among patients with home addresses clustered around the market “ is an absolutely crucial point, ”

A scientist who has pored over public accounts of early Covid-19 cases in China reported on Thursday that an influential World Health Organization inquiry had most likely gotten the early chronology of the pandemic wrong.... “ It becomes very difficult to explain that pattern if the outbreak didn’t start at the market.” Several experts, including one of the pandemic investigators chosen by the W.H.O., said that Dr.... They suggested that the virus probably infected a “ patient zero ” sometime

In the early 2000s, a coronavirus infecting bats jumped into raccoon dogs and other wild mammals in southwestern China.... Some of those animals were sold in markets, where the coronavirus jumped again, into humans.... A few months into it, scientists discovered the coronavirus in mammals known as palm civets sold in a market at the center of the outbreak.In a study published on Wednesday, a team of researchers compared the evolutionary story of SARS with that of Covid 17 years later....

Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul has said he plans to subpoena Dr Anthony Fauci if the Republicans take control of the Senate after this autumn’s midterm elections and he becomes a committee chairman.... Dr Paul is likely to become chairman of the Senate Health Committee if the GOP manages to win control of the 50-50 chamber, because the current top Republican on the committee, North Carolina Senator Richard Burr, is retiring.... “ If we win in November, if I’m chairman of a committee, if

ENSHI, China — Hundreds of caves are spread throughout the mountains of Enshi prefecture, an agricultural corner of China's Hubei province.... One type, Rhinolophus affinis, has been found farther south in China carrying a virus 96 percent identical to SARS-CoV-2.In the rolling land near the caves, Enshi officials for years promoted wildlife farming to alleviate poverty.... Authorities estimated that the 290 shuttered Enshi farms had 450, 000 to 780, 000 animals. China's government and the WHO