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New genetic analysis of animals farmed at the 2019 Wuhan market may help shed light on origins of COVID-19

An elderly patient receives an intravenous drip while on a ventilator in a hallway at an emergency ward in Beijing, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Andy Wong, File Scientists investigating the origins of COVID-19 are zeroing in on a list of animals that may have played a role in the disease’s spread to humans, in the hope that the…