However, Crits-Christoph et al '24 failed to mention that an early paper which many of its authors also co-authored, ie, Worobey et al '22, clearly indicated via that paper's Tables 1 & S5 that NO CIVET were observed being sold live in HSM during the last 3 months of 2019.
Bias?

Similarly, it seemed an act of bias for Crits-Christoph et al '24 to include Amur Hedgehog as a potential candidate for intermediate host of SARS2 virus - given there's absolutely NO EVIDENCE which indicates it can be infected by or transmit the virus responsible for Covid-19.

Plus, several papers have studied other sp in the Family AND the Order of mammals in which Amur Hedgehog is a member, & have determined that its congeners had an extremely low likelihood of being infected by SARS2 because their ACE2 isn't attractive to the spike proteins of virus.

In addition, the ACE2 of the Bamboo-rat (Rhizomys pruinosus) was evaluated by Temmam et al '23 (see excerpt of Fig. 5👇) and was found to have a very low 'binding free energy' score of -5.8;
meaning it's likely that its ACE2 would only weakly attract the SARS2 virus spike (see top row of data) - far less than that of a pet cat (-8.6) or a human (-10.4).

Nonetheless, if you check Table 1 in Xiao et al '21 to find out how many live animals were sold at all 4 wet markets in Wuhan combined - including those sold in HSM - for each of the 5 sp which Crits-Christoph et al '24 indicates as having 'unknown-to-possible' likelihood of being intermediate host involved in SARS2 spillover events at HSM in 2019,

you'll find that 'on avg' there were 332 hedgehog sold PER MONTH,

whereas for the other 4 sp collectively there were 102 animals sold PER MONTH (of which 11 were civet and 43 were Bamboo-rat),

and, again, these totals represent the avg monthly sale of live animals at 1 or more of Wuhan's wet markets PER MONTH (ie, the specific data for HSM - indicating how many actually were sold there - has never been disclosed; we only the cumulative monthly avg sales per species at all 4 of Wuhan's wet markets COMBINED).