Genetic testing on samples collected during the earliest days of the covid-19 outbreak suggests it is likely that the virus spread from animals to humans at the Huanan seafood market

“There is little doubt about the origins of SARS-CoV-2 coming from the wet market now,” says Edwards. “The authors discuss humans causing the infection in the market, but any other origin story has to explain how it was only the market that was the source of so many outbreaks.”