Letter to the Editor: Comment of a critical review about the origins of SARS-CoV-2 Authors François Graner* Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo Etienne Decroly Richard H. Ebright Colin D. Butler Fabien Colombo Bernd Kaina Monali C. Rahalkar José Halloy Rahul A. Bahulikar Günter Theißen Milton Leitenberg Serge Morand Hideki Kakeya Jean-Michel Claverie Jacques van Helden* * Corresponding authors Affiliations MSC, Université de Paris, CNRS UMR 7057, Paris, France (FG) Université de Paris, Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS UMR 7592, Paris, France (VCO) Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS UMR 7257, Marseille, France (ED) Department of Chemistry and Waksman Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA (RHE) National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra ACT Australia (CDB) Université Bordeaux Montaigne, EA 4426 MICA, Pessac, France (FC) Institute of Toxicology, University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany (BK) Bioenergy group, MACS Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, India (MCR) Université de Paris, LIED, CNRS UMR 8236, Paris, France (JH) BAIF Development Research Foundation, Urulikanchan, Pune, India (RAB) Matthias Schleiden Institute / Genetics, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany (GT) University of Maryland, School of Public Affairs, USA (ML) Montpellier Université, CNRS UMR 5554, Montpellier, France (SM) Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, University of Tsukuba, Japan (HK) Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS UMR 7256, Marseille, France (JMC) Lab Theory and Approaches of Genome Complexity, INSERM, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France (JvH) 1/6