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Re:Pangolins found to carry viruses related to Covid-19 by basch on Thursday March 26, 2020 @12:41PM (#22695348)
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.

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Re:Pangolins found to carry viruses related to Covid-19 by JumpCrisscross on Thursday March 26, 2020 @12:47PM (#22695415)
> 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-bio...

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Re:Pangolins found to carry viruses related to Covid-19 by amazingman on Thursday March 26, 2020 @01:12PM (#22695685)
Either way, AFAICT we know for certain that it didn’t come from a lab somewhere and that narrative needs to stop spreading.
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