Re:Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 and Covid-19
by legulere on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @06:50AM
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The outbreak happening in Wuhan does not mean that the virus originated there. In the beginning there was more genetic variety seen in Guangdong, which is a sign that the virus originated there and not in Wuhan.
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Re:Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 and Covid-19
by jerome-jh on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @07:35AM
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The outbreak has always been claimed to occur in Wuhan's "wet market". The article only mentions pangolin coronavirus strains in relation to Guangdong. There is no assumption in the article SARS-CoV-2, the human virus, could originate from Guangdong. Should SARS-CoV-2 actually originate from Guangdong would anyway be the sign of a huge dissimulation.
Re:Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 and Covid-19
by matthewdgreen on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @10:16AM
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My understanding is that many scientists have concluded that animal->human adaptation occurred prior to the Wuhan wet market, and the market is basically a red herring. This is based on the relatively low degree of genetic drift that has occurred with SARS-Cov-2 since that time, which indicates that the substantial changes related to human adaptation are likely to have occurred prior to those wet market infections. There are better articles, but here's one [1].
[1] https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-did-not-start-at-wuhan-...