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Skimmed the article but failed to see any evidence for a zoonotic origin. Did I miss it?
by nickdothutton 5y ago
Skimmed the article but failed to see any evidence for a zoonotic origin. Did I miss it?
- kryz 5y agoThere is no real case made for zoonotic origin in this article. The tone of the article exhibits some bias and spurious logic in the support of a zoonotic origin
- lamontcg 5y agohttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.22.427830v3 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.22.427830v3 https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1006698 https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j... https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(21)00709-1.pdf https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(21)00709-1.pdf
- paulddraper 5y agoThe evidence is that it's happened before so it could again. It's not like there's a paper trail. The best you can say is that the virus looked very similar between species, so a natural jump is plausible.