Science 15 March 2024
Vol. 383, issue 6688, eadp1133
DOI: 10.1126/science.adp1133
Erratum for the Research Article “The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic” by M. Worobey et al.
On May 8 2023, a correction was posted to the Supplementary Material of the Research Article “The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.” Because this correction involved changes to the data files posted to Github, Science should have indexed it as a formal Erratum. The indexed version of the change was posted on 15 March 2024. The details of the Erratum do not substantively differ from those of the 8 May 2023 Correction and are as follows:
It has been brought to the authors’ attention that two files in the GitHub repository associated with the paper were identical: “distance_popdensityagegroups_null_35.csv” (located at https://github.com/sars-cov-2-origins/huanan-market/tree/main/data) and “distance_popdensityagegroups_null_120.csv” (located at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6786454). These files included median distances to the Huanan market of locations drawn from a Wuhan population density map, as described in the paper. In the original GitHub submission, the data in “distance_popdensityagegroups_null_35.csv” were incorrect. The median values in that file were duplicates of those in “distance_popdensityagegroups_null_120.csv.”
Upon inspection of these files, the authors also noticed that the number of pseudoreplicates contained in these two files and in one additional file (“distance_popdensityagegroups_null_155.csv”) was 10,000 rather than the n = 1000 used for all related analyses. The authors therefore generated new versions of these three files with n = 1000 and re-ran all statistical tests in which any of the three files were used. All results remained the same as previously reported: p < 0.001 and p-Adjusted (BH) = 0.003 for “distance_popdensityagegroups_null_35.csv,” which now contains unique, updated data and a corrected n value, and the corrected versions of the original versions of “distance_popdensityagegroups_null_120. csv” and “distance_popdensityagegroups_null_155.csv” (see table S4). The authors have uploaded the three corrected files to their GitHub repository and archived the updated repository on Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7887816).