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It was received knowledge well before 11/21, I remember well from that morning on NPR [0]. I read that article and the academic paper [1] behind it. There is nothing there other than thin correlation. No evidence to say a single zoonotic exposure occurred, much less many over several months, over that human to human transmission occurred there. Correlation is great for starting an investigation such as Snow’s [2]. After the map Snow established causation and a mechanism, Worobey does nothing.

0. https://www.npr.org/2020/01/29/800725826/why-wet-markets-are...

1. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm4454

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outb...




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