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Re: weakening of their claim, not only did Worobey et al. have to remove these instances of unscientific language, but they also had to insert a new study limit
by ayjchan 4y ago
Re: weakening of their claim, not only did Worobey et al. have to remove these instances of unscientific language, but they also had to insert a new study limitations section and this clarification in their article:
“However, the observation that the preponderance of early cases were linked to the Huanan market does not establish that the pandemic originated there.”
- pcrh 4y ago"Study limitations" is standard language in epidemiological papers, so that's not a surprise, nor a condemnation. Further, to my knowledge it is known that "case zero" (i.e. the zoonotic event) did not occur at the Wuhan market, specifically because there was already sequence divergence in early cases. However, that doesn't prevent the market from being the main source of the outbreak. There's no evidence for any other source.