Divisive COVID 'lab leak' debate prompts dire warnings from researchers.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

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Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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2. Updated analysis to reject the laboratory-engineering hypothesis of SARS-CoV-2.Environmental research · 2023
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3. Pandemic Outbreaks and the Language of Violence: Discussing the Origins of the Black Death and COVID-19.Chest · 2022
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4. Impact of computational approaches in the fight against COVID-19: an AI guided review of 17 000 studies.Briefings in bioinformatics · 2022
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5. Multi-country collaboration in responding to global infectious disease threats: lessons for Europe from the COVID-19 pandemic.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2021
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6. Can Science Help Resolve the Controversy on the Origins of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic?mBio · 2021
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Corrections and comments

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  A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China.2020
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  Investigate the origins of COVID-19.2021

Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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