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Unfortunately, there is a big gap between the viruses found in nature, and SARS-Cov-2 that bit humanity on the ass. We have not found an "evolutionary trail", s
by 1024core 5y ago
Unfortunately, there is a big gap between the viruses found in nature, and SARS-Cov-2 that bit humanity on the ass. We have not found an "evolutionary trail", so to speak between the two. You would think that if something evolves from A to B, that you'd find variants interpolating the two stages. In natural evolution, that's always the case. But in the case of SARS-Cov-2, this new virus magically appears in Wuhan.
- Ericson2314 5y agoPer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaTG13#Phylogenetic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaTG13#Phylogenetic we're not hopelessly lost though? It seems like no matter what the "origin" is, just chasing around Hubei sequencing animal droppings is going to allow us to refine the above nicely.