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Investigate the origins of COVID-19

Jesse D. Bloom, Yujia Alina Chan, Ralph S. Baric, Pamela J. Bjorkman, Sarah Cobey, Benjamin E. Deverman, David N. Fisman, Ravindra Gupta, Akiko Iwasaki, Marc Lipsitch, Ruslan Medzhitov, Richard A. Neher, Rasmus Nielsen, Nick Patterson, Tim Stearns, Erik van Nimwegen, Michael Worobey, and David A. Relman [email protected]

Science • 14 May 2021 • Vol 372, Issue 6543 • p. 694 • DOI: 10.1126/science.abj0016

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Jesse D. Bloom

Basic Sciences and Computational Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA.

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Yujia Alina Chan

Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.

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Ralph S. Baric

Department of Epidemiology and Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.

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Pamela J. Bjorkman

Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.

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Sarah Cobey

Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.

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Benjamin E. Deverman

Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.

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David N. Fisman

Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada.

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Ravindra Gupta

Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease, Cambridge, UK.

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Akiko Iwasaki

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA.

Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519, USA.

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Marc Lipsitch

Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

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Ruslan Medzhitov

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA.

Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519, USA.

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Richard A. Neher

Biozentrum, University of Basel and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Basel, Switzerland.

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Rasmus Nielsen

Department of Integrative Biology and Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

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Nick Patterson

Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

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Tim Stearns

Department of Biology and Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

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Erik van Nimwegen

Biozentrum, University of Basel and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Basel, Switzerland.

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Michael Worobey

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.

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David A. Relman^* [email protected]

Department of Medicine and Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

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