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I thought it was bats to pangolins to humans. Same as the first sars coronavirus being bats to civets (paradoxurinae) to humans. The theory being, bats are na
by basch 7y ago
I thought it was bats to pangolins to humans. Same as the first sars coronavirus being bats to civets (paradoxurinae) to humans.
The theory being, bats are natures reservoir of the parent virus, and SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 both descended from it, through an intermediate host.
- JumpCrisscross 7y ago> I thought it was bats to pangolins to humans You’re correct [1]. Thank you. [1] https://www.cell.com/pb-assets/journals/research/current-biology/CURBIO_CURRENT-BIOLOGY-D-20-00299-compressed.pdf https://www.cell.com/pb-assets/journals/research/current-bio...
- amazingman 7y agoEither way, AFAICT we know for certain that it didn’t come from a lab somewhere and that narrative needs to stop spreading.