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ArticleEnvironmental research2023

Scientific evidence on the origin of SARS-CoV-2.

Avelino Núñez-Delgado, Warish Ahmed, Jesús L Romande, Kuldeep Dhama, José L Domingo

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Article in Environmental research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Avelino Núñez-DelgadoDept. Soil Sci. and Agric. Chem., Univ. Santiago de Compostela, Engineering Polytech. School, Campus Univ. S/n, 27002, Lugo, Spain. Electronic address: avelino.nunez@usc.es.
Warish AhmedCSIRO Land and Water, Ecosciences Precinct, 41 Boggo Road, QLD, 4102, Australia.
Jesús L RomandeDept. Microbiology and Parasitology, Univ. Santiago de Compostela, CIBUS-Fac. Bioloxía & CRETUS, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Kuldeep DhamaIndian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Izatnagar-243 122, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India.
José L DomingoUniversitat Rovira I Virgili, Laboratory of Toxicology and Environmental Health, School of Medicine, Reus, Spain.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Even reaching the end of the year 2022, there is still a controversy on the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This Virtual Special Issue (VSI), focused on the "Scientific evidence on the origin of SARS-CoV-2", was launched some months ago with the aim of stimulating the submission of new high quality scientific research papers on the matter, to shed light on it. As indicated in the call for papers, the Editors involved in the VSI were aware of the difficulties of presenting concluding facts on that issue, however, bearing in mind that some teams of researchers had started investigations regarding this subject, a VSI like this (searching for stimulating the scientific controversy while requiring scientific evidence), could help to elucidate complicated aspects, going a step ahead in this way. The Editors made a call encouraging interested teams of researchers having solid results to submit high quality manuscripts dealing with this crucial theme. We thought -and we still think-that it is of maximum interest for the scientific community, as well as for the whole society, now and probably for the future. The VSI have received 50 submissions, which could be considered a limited number highlighting the difficulties of elaborating new high-quality manuscripts providing solid evidence on the matter. After a careful peer-review, those manuscripts considered to reach the highest scientific value were accepted for publication. The Editors think that the set of papers included in this VSI constitute interesting and high-quality contributions, providing further scientific knowledge on this issue. In this editorial piece, the Editors make some comments on the papers published, including some additional reflections.

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COVID-19SARS-CoV-2HumansCOVID-19PandemicsSARS-CoV-2 originVirus

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PMID36272589
PMCPMC9580230

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