r/EverythingScience • u/Sariel007 • Mar 05 '22

Epidemiology Striking new evidence points to Wuhan seafood market as the pandemic's origin point

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/03/03/1083751272/striking-new-evidence-points-to-seafood-market-in-wuhan-as-pandemic-origin-point
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u/tapodhar1991 Mar 05 '22

Neither of the papers provides the smoking gun — that is, an animal infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus at a market.

But they come close.

The papers are preliminary. They still need to be reviewed by outside scientists.

Yeah, I'm gonna wait forming an opinion about this till this is peer reviewed.

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u/LostInGreenWood718 Mar 05 '22

It’s not bad journalism. It’s not bad journalism. It’s not bad journalism. Oh

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u/freedumb_rings Mar 06 '22

But…it’s not?

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u/padam11 Mar 05 '22

You don’t have to be a fucking genius to think it’s pretty likely that animals (which have spread other viruses to humans including SARS) also probably were the first to spread to humans, especially when a huge chunk of the cases were in the same area as them.

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u/FlixFlix Mar 05 '22 edited Mar 05 '22

Oh come on, is animal tissue splatter with high concentrations of the virus on very specific surfaces where said animals were being butchered not a smoking gun?

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u/subdep Mar 06 '22

But where did the animal, patient zero, come from before it came to the market?

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u/squidster42 Mar 06 '22

The wuhan institution of virology

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u/syloc Mar 05 '22

Yea very click bait title!