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For completeness sake, can we also say:

* There is no evidence that the virus originated with imported frozen seafood.

* There is no evidence that the virus originated with US Army personnel who were present for the Military World Games.

* There is no evidence for the "multiple origins theory" that the Chinese government is currently promoting.

The wet market origin theory would be more plausible to me if not for the fact that SARS-CoV-2 was found all over surfaces there but not in a single live or dead animal. That seems to indicate that it was merely the location of an early superspreader event and not the true origin.

>>DebtDe+(OP)
Yep, agreed on all 3 counts.

>>DebtDe+(OP)
Best epidemiological and genetic evidence suggests it originated somewhere outside Wuhan and then became a serious outbreak there as it's a major population center.

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did...