Your task is to predict the verdict of a claim based on the provided question-answer pair evidence. The possible labels are: 'Supported', 'Refuted', 'Not Enough Evidence', 'Conflicting Evidence/Cherrypicking'. Justify your answer using the provided evidence and select the correct label.

Claim: Comedian, Samuel Whitcomb Hyde is behind the spread of Coronavirus.

Q1: How did the spread of covid-19 likely occur?
A1: In late December, the World Health Organization learned that several patients in Wuhan, China had contracted pneumonia from a virus that did not match any known viruses. In early January, officials in China concluded that the virus was a new coronavirus, a group of viruses that can cause illnesses ranging from the common cold to severe acute respiratory syndrome, known as SARS, and Middle East respiratory syndrome, known as MERS.

Q2: Where did Coronavirus originate?
A2: Bats are natural reservoirs of coronaviruses, and likely harbor many other coronaviruses not yet discovered. However, while direct spillover of a new virus from bats to humans is possible, zoonoses often stem from exposure to intermediate animal hosts. Research conducted in China and elsewhere since the COVID-19 pandemic began has shown that a range of animals – including wild and farmed species – are susceptible to infection, but when and where SARS-CoV-2 spilled over to humans, and from which animal, remains unknown.

Q3: Where was the first COVID outbreak detected?
A3: Where an epidemic is first detected does not necessarily reflect where it started. An outbreak of pneumonia of unknown etiology was identified through surveillance in Wuhan, however the possibility that the virus may have silently circulated elsewhere cannot be ruled out. For example, some countries have retrospectively identified cases of COVID-19 weeks before the first case was officially notified through surveillance, and unpublished reports of positive sewage samples could suggest that the virus may have circulated undetected for some time. The COVID-19 outbreak was first reported in Wuhan, where the SARS-CoV-2 virus was also first identified and characterized. The detection was followed by a rapid exponentially growing outbreak, weeks before other outbreaks were detected elsewhere. Thus, under the framework of global tracing for the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the approach to identifying the source of infection, the source of introduction and possible origins of the virus initially conducted in Wuhan is of importance for further global origin tracing work.

Q4: Was Coronavirus man-made?
A4: A research article cited by thousands states - SARS-CoV-2 is the seventh coronavirus known to infect humans; SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 can cause severe disease, whereas HKU1, NL63, OC43 and 229E are associated with mild symptoms6. Here we review what can be deduced about the origin of SARS-CoV-2 from comparative analysis of genomic data. We offer a perspective on the notable features of the SARS-CoV-2 genome and discuss scenarios by which they could have arisen. Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.

Q5: Was the spread of coronavirus deliberate?
A5: Absent that, the burden of proof that this outbreak did not occur naturally is high, because as mentioned above, there are a lot of reasons to suggest that Covid-19 is exactly what it appears to be – an infectious coronavirus that spilled over from bats into a population that has already experienced a previous spillover event from a related virus. And regardless of its origin, we still need to handle it in the same way: social distancing, mask wearing, increased testing and contact tracing until a reliable therapy or vaccine is developed.

Q6: Did the coronavirus spread naturally?
A6: A genetic study of samples from more than 7,500 people infected with COVID-19 suggests the new coronavirus spread quickly around the world after it emerged in China sometime between October and December last year, scientists say. 

Scientists at University College London’s Genetics Institute found almost 200 recurrent genetic mutations of the new coronavirus - SARS-CoV-2 - which the UCL researchers said showed how it is adapting to its human hosts as it spreads.

“Phylogenetic estimates support that the COVID-2 pandemic started sometime around Oct. 6, 2019 to Dec. 11, 2019, which corresponds to the time of the host jump into humans,” the research team, co-led by Francois Balloux, wrote in a study published in the journal Infection, Genetics and Evolution.

Balloux said the analysis also found that the virus was and is mutating, as normally happens with viruses, and that a large proportion of the global genetic diversity of the virus causing COVID-19 was found in all of the hardest-hit countries.

That suggests SARS-CoV-2 was being transmitted extensively around the world from early on in the epidemic, he said.

Q7: Was there anything reported by police or public authorities to support criminal offence accusations for Sam Hyde?
A7: No, because There were no official reports found regarding Sam Hyde being connected to the spread of coronavirus. Articles such as the one below seem to conclude that such social media claims about this person are unverified and belong to what is the spread of disinformation online. -  The people that we study that use media to manipulate other people know that, and they know that there are times when information is critical, during—especially what we study during breaking news cycles, where we see a lot of what we call source hacking, which is hacking source material. It’s making shit up—(laughter)—so that in the moment they can piggyback their ideas or their political opinions into the story. So it doesn’t surprise my research lab every time we see a mass shooting that we see the misidentification of certain mass shooters that identify either this young internet comedian named Sam Hyde, or Antifa is a popular—a popular conspiracy theory, or crisis actors. And in these moments we know what to look for because we are a highly skilled research lab, but it doesn’t mean that anyone that’s popping onto Twitter that are looking at these keywords knows the difference between one of these posts that is targeted disinformation and one of these posts that is maybe what we call misinformation, is information that’s being circulated in the moment but we all know it’s unverified.
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justification: There is no evidence at all that Hyde has anything to do with Covid, and the Q&As show the most likely causes of Covid spread.

verdict: 'Refuted'
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