Was Wuhan the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic?-A critique

Affiliations

• ¹ Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.
• ² College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, China.
• ³ Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
• ⁴ Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, China.
• ⁵ Wuxi School of Medicine, Jiangnan University, China.
• ⁶ School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, China.
• ⁷ Department of Physics, School of Science, Tianjin University, China.
• ⁸ School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, China.
• ⁹ Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
• ¹⁰ Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
• ¹¹ Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
• ¹² Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
• ¹³ School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, China.
• ¹⁴ Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
• ¹⁵ Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University College Sedaya International, Malaysia.
• ¹⁶ School of Medicine, South China University of Technology, China.
• ¹⁷ Department of Medical Genetics, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, China.
• ¹⁸ School of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, China.
• ¹⁹ Department of Biochemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University, Pakistan.
• ²⁰ Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, China.
• ²¹ Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, China.
• ²² College of Life Science and Technology, Foshan University, China.
• ²³ South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
• ²⁴ College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, China.
• ²⁵ School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, China.
• ²⁶ School of Life Sciences, Peking University, China.
• ²⁷ Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
• ²⁸ College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, China.
• ²⁹ Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
• ³⁰ School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, China.
• ³¹ Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China.
• ³² Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
• ³³ Institute of Systems Biomedicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.
• ³⁴ Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
• ³⁵ School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, China.
• ³⁶ Division of Life Science and Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China.
• ³⁷ Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
• ³⁸ School of Life Sciences, Jiangsu Normal University, China.
• ³⁹ School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, China.
• ⁴⁰ College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
• ⁴¹ International Center for Aging and Cancer, Hainan Medical University, China.
• ⁴² Academy of Medical Science, Zhengzhou University, China.
• ⁴³ Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China.
• ⁴⁴ Bioinformatics and BioMedical Bigdata Mining Laboratory, School of Big Health, Guizhou Medical University, China.
• ⁴⁵ School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, China.
• ⁴⁶ Beijing Institutes of Life Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
• ⁴⁷ College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, China.
• ⁴⁸ Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
• ⁴⁹ Department of Pathology, and Department of Medical Oncology of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China.
• ⁵⁰ School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, China.
• ⁵¹ School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, China.
• ⁵² Life Sciences Institute, Zhejiang University, China.
• ⁵³ Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.