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First known Covid case was vendor at Wuhan Market, scientist claims

By Carl Zimmer, Benjamin Mueller and Chris Buckley
New York Times·
11 mins to read

A new review of early Covid-19 cases in the journal Science will revive, though certainly not settle, the debate over how the pandemic began.

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 likely gotten the early chronology of the pandemic wrong. The new analysis suggests that the first known patient sickened with the coronavirus was a vendor in a large Wuhan animal market,

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