The origin of the COVID-19 pandemic has become a heated and politicized public debate. Did the virus come from a Chinese lab leak, or did it jump from animals to humans in a Wuhan wet market? Enter Michael Worobey, Department Head of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona and one of the world’s leading scientists studying the genomic origins of pandemics. His research has produced strong evidence supporting a market origin for the virus, though public opinion on the topic has been slow to catch up.

On the Origin of COVID