{"id":36351,"date":"2026-07-29T10:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=36351"},"modified":"2026-08-04T10:59:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:59:55","slug":"animal-spillover-lab-leak-what-the-science-says-about-the-origins-of-covid-19-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2026\/animal-spillover-lab-leak-what-the-science-says-about-the-origins-of-covid-19-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Spillover? Lab Leak? What the Science Says About the Origins of COVID-19\u2014NPR<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014Features comments by Felicia Goodrum, a professor of microbiology and immunology, on scientific evidence supporting an animal-to-human origin for COVID-19 and warning that ongoing debates over the pandemic's origins may undermine preparedness for future outbreaks. \"We are less safe. We are less prepared for a pandemic right now than we were in 2019,\" Goodrum said. (Similar coverage in KDKA<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014Features comments by Felicia Goodrum, a professor of microbiology and immunology, on scientific evidence supporting an animal-to-human origin for COVID-19 and warning that ongoing debates over the pandemic’s origins may undermine preparedness for future outbreaks. “We are less safe. We are less prepared for a pandemic right now than we were in 2019,” Goodrum said. (Similar coverage in KDKA<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-9sj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36352,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36351\/revisions\/36352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}