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No, We Didn’t Get the Coronavirus from Bats
- wahern 6y agoSome scientists may disagree about the role of bats as reservoirs, but some scientists also disagree with anthropogenic global warming. I don't think the authors are being completely honest, which is unsurprising considering that it's an opinion piece. There was a special issue of the journal Viruses, "Viruses and Bats 2019", published just last year that contradicts almost everything in that article. See https://www.mdpi.com/journal/viruses/special_issues/viruses_bats_2019 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/viruses/special_issues/viruses_... One of the included papers was "Bat Coronaviruses in China", https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/11/3/210 https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/11/3/210. They perhaps deserve the award for most prescient observation of 2019 with > Thus, it is highly likely that future SARS- or MERS-like coronavirus outbreaks will originate from bats, and there is an increased probability that this will occur in China.