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Edward C. Holmes, NHMRC Leadership Fellow and Professor of Virology, University of Sydney

How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic

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In late June, the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), a group of independent experts convened by the World Health Organization (WHO), published an assessment of the origins of COVID.

The report concluded that although we don’t know conclusively where the virus that caused the pandemic came from:

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