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Comparison between "Bat SARS-like coronavirus" and the "Wuhan seafood market pneumonia virus" seems to show a 100% match: https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.

Comparison between "Bat SARS-like coronavirus" and the "Wuhan seafood market pneumonia virus" seems to show a 100% match: https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?RID=2PUA1EJK114&CMD=Get https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?RID=2PUA1EJK114&CMD... Bat SARS-like coronavirus WIV1 has been known since at least 2013. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_SARS-like_coronavirus_WIV1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_SARS-like_coronavirus_WIV1

throwawaylolx 7y ago
Yes, these are the two strains I was referring to in my original post. They share the same sequence of 75 aminoacids for their envelope proteins despite differing slightly in the nucleotide sequences.