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What do "Wuhan wet markets" have to do with anything? From the article: The seafood market was almost certainly “just” an early superspreader site, rather tha
by adolph 5y ago
What do "Wuhan wet markets" have to do with anything?
From the article:
The seafood market was almost certainly “just” an early superspreader site, rather than the site of the original spillover event. No bats or pangolins at all, and relatively few mammals of any kind, appear to have been sold at that market, and no sign of SARS-CoV2 was ever found in any of the animals despite searching.
- AnotherGoodName 5y agoWidely accepted as the source of the coronavirus outbreak.
- adolph 5y agoI wonder how that came to be and retained as the received knowledge? Who was the person or organization who identified which specific market?
- AnotherGoodName 5y agoYou can read about it here https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/11/19/1040390/covid-wuhan-natural-spillover-wuhan-wet-market-huanan/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/11/19/1040390/covid-wu...
- adolph 5y agoIt was received knowledge well before 11/21, I remember well from that morning on NPR [0]. I read that article and the academic paper [1] behind it. There is nothing there other than thin correlation. No evidence to say a single zoonotic exposure occurred, much less many over several months, over that human to human transmission occurred there. Correlation is great for starting an investigation such as Snow’s [2]. After the map Snow established causation and a mechanism, Worobey does nothing. 0. https://www.npr.org/2020/01/29/800725826/why-wet-markets-are-the-perfect-place-to-spread-disease https://www.npr.org/2020/01/29/800725826/why-wet-markets-are... 1. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm4454 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm4454 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outbreak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outb...