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Animal spillover? Lab leak? What the science says about the origins of COVID-19

Author not recordedWUNC NewsPublished Jul 29, 2026Original︎ ↗Archived copy

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Worobey said that the likelihood of a coincidence — wherein the virus did come from a lab, even though the first cluster of COVID-19 cases occurred at the market — was "1 in 10,000."

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