The hidden history of #Covid19 is written in the genomes of coronaviruses. Here’s my @nytimes story about its discovery. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/science/new-york-coronavirus-cases-came-from-europe-genomes.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/0...
Some folks are asking “Where in Europe?” That’s hard to pin down at this point [More genomes needed.] But those who assume it MUST be Italy may be surprised by this @nextstrain map of just the NYU samples—none match up closest to Italy. https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global?f_originating_lab=NYU%20Langone%20Health">https://nextstrain.org/ncov/glob...
And here is the Mt Sinai genomes so far https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global?f_author=Ana%20Gonzalez-Reiche%20et%20al">https://nextstrain.org/ncov/glob...