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Skeptics have maintained that there were scant grounds for the assertion that raccoon dogs were the pandemic’s intermediate species, if the only evidence for that claim was the presence of viral and animal DNA in the same market stall in a crowded marketplace.

Media reports created a false impression of a major breakthrough linking animals to Covid’s origins.

Skeptics have maintained that there were scant grounds for the assertion that raccoon dogs were the pandemic’s intermediate species, if the only evidence for that claim was the presence of viral and animal DNA in the same market stall in a crowded marketplace.

If the raccoon dog was a smoking gun, it fired blanks.

Commentary Recent reports from major media organizations claim that new evidence points to raccoon dogs at the Wuhan ...

An article in The Atlantic claims that there is "strong evidence" that COVID-19 came from an animal — instead of a lab in China.

Dr Steven Quay, who is based in Taiwan, told DailyMail.com that researchers who published a report on Covid spilling over to humans from raccoon dogs last week were untruthful.

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 wild-animal source, and that the pathogen leaked from a lab.

A tiny group of researchers, desperate to defy the overwhelming evidence of a lab-leak origin, is now suggesting that it came from an odd-looking local animal.

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