Science, not speculation, is essential to determine how SARS-CoV-2 reached humans

Affiliations

• ¹ Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
• ² Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Texas A&M, College Station, TX, USA.
• ³ University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
• ⁴ National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory Institute, Boston University, Boston, MA 02118, USA.
• ⁵ EcoHealth Alliance, New York, NY, USA.
• ⁶ Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
• ⁷ Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain.
• ⁸ The Wellcome Trust, London, UK.
• ⁹ School of Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
• ¹⁰ Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
• ¹¹ Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
• ¹² Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
• ¹³ National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory Institute, Boston University, Boston, MA 02118, USA. Electronic address: keusch@bu.edu.
• ¹⁴ University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• ¹⁵ Lubroth One Health Consultancies, Casaprota, Italy.
• ¹⁶ Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
• ¹⁷ University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
• ¹⁸ University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
• ¹⁹ Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
• ²⁰ The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
• ²¹ The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
• ²² The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
• ²³ Institute of Infection Immunity & Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.