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A Major Clue to COVID’s Origins Is Just Out of Reach

March 21, 2023 · Health

Updated at 2:45 p.m. on March 21, 2023 Last week, the ongoing debate about COVID-19’s origins acquired a new plot twist. A French evolutionary biologist stumbled across a…

The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic

March 16, 2023 · Health

For three years now, the debate over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has ping-ponged between two big ideas: that SARS-CoV-2 spilled into human populations directly from a…