Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live

‘A team of scientists finds that unlike SARS, this virus showed very little rapid adaptation/evolution in the early weeks of the epidemic, implying it was already settled into its final form. This implies that the source was almost certainly not via pangolins and probably not the wet market. It was more likely brought to the market by a person not ... See more

If we do not find out how this pandemic began, we are ill-equipped to know when, where and how the next pandemic may start.

It had come to an electrifying conclusion: the virus causing the pandemic was evolving more slowly than one newly arrived in the human species from another animal normally would. This implied it was already well adapted to human beings from the moment it was first detected in Wuhan in December 2019.