“The whole area is too sensitive. There is too much politicization. We must focus on science,” Dr. George Fu Gao said.
Though cagey, Gao — who is thought to know more about the origins of the disease than any other scientist — did claim that there is no evidence COVID lived on an intermediate animal species between sprouting on bats and jumping to humans.
“I, too, thought there must be an intermediate host — a reservoir — but now I’m not so sure. It’s possible there is no animal reservoir,” he told the outlet. Last month, a published report using genetic sequences gathered by Gao and his CDC team found “convincing evidence” COVID-19 was spreading widely at Wuhan’s Huanan seafood market in January 2020 — the wet marketA new report said there is strong evidence the pandemic started at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market.and other animals was present in COVID-positive samples at the market when the disease first boomed.
Though the scientists wrote it is not clear how the virus made its way to the market, they said COVID could have been “introduced by a human or cold chain product” or an animal., when he claimed samples collected from animals in the market in early January of that year showed no traces of the virus.“At first, we assumed the seafood market might have the virus, but now the market is more like a victim,” Gao said at the time.
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