Angus McCowan: Purported quantitative support for multiple introductions of SARS-CoV-2 into humans is an artefact of an imbalanced hypothesis testing framework https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20076 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.20076 https://arxiv.org/html/2502.20076
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Abstract: A prominent report claimed substantial support for two introductions of SARS-CoV-2 into humans using a calculation that combined phylodynamic inferences and epidemic models. [1/3 of https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20076v1]