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Health & Medicine · Pandemics & disease origins

Competing accounts of the COVID-19 outbreak — origin, scale, and response — including lab-leak versus wet-market readings, without deciding intent or offering treatment guidance.

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Timeline

  1. 2020-02-06 · eventOSTP seeks NASEM input on coronavirus origins questions
  2. 2020-03 · investigationProximal origin paper in Science
  3. 2020-05 · document_releaseLawrence Livermore assessment addresses lab-leak possibility
  4. 2021 · popularizationLab-leak debate mainstreams
  5. 2021 · popularizationScientists call for serious study of natural and lab pathways
  6. 2021-03 · investigationWHO-convened joint origins study
  7. 2021-03-30 · document_releaseWHO-convened joint origins study published
  8. 2022 · document_releaseStudies argue Huanan market was early outbreak epicenter
  9. 2023 · amplificationContinued congressional and scientific review
  10. 2023-03 · investigationHouse testimony revisits lab-leak evidence and narrative politics
  11. 2024 · investigationHouse oversight COVID-origins probes and hearings continue
  12. 2024-12 · document_releaseSelect subcommittee after-action pandemic report released

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