Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
Matt Ridley
Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
Genetic sequencing showed that SARS-2 is 96.2 percent identical to a coronavirus found years ago in a bat in a cave in Yunnan, China (that virus is known as RaTG13). This confirms that SARS-2 originated in bats, where it probably circulated unnoticed for decades, but the virus also might have spent some time in pangolins before coming to our own sp
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