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ArticleNature2026

COVID's origins: what we do and don't know.

Marietjie Venter, Jean-Claude Manuguerra, John M Watson, Thea K Fischer, Stuart D Blacksell, Kathrina Summermatter, Inger K Damon, Christian Drosten, Phillip Alviola, Abdullah Assiri and 13 more

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Article in Nature, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

23 authors.

Marietjie Venter
Jean-Claude Manuguerra
John M Watson
Thea K Fischer
Stuart D Blacksell
Kathrina Summermatter
Inger K Damon
Christian Drosten
Phillip Alviola
Abdullah Assiri
Elmoubasher Farag
Raman Gangakhedkar
Nada Ghosn
Maria G Guzman
Christian Happi
Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka
Normand Labbé
Khin Myint
Hung Nguyen-Viet
Chinwe Ochu
Masayuki Saijo
Rosemary Sang
Supaporn Wacharapluesadee

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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PoliticsSARS-CoV-2VaccinesVirology

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.