Weedsy thoughts on whether the virus came from accidental release. The most direct ancestor weâve found was in a bat, but of the two new mutations SARS-CoV-2 has, one hasnât been seen in a coronavirus and the other was seen in pangolins. https://twitter.com/comparativist/status/1249227273544142850">https://twitter.com/comparati...
Theyâre also arguing youâd need a lot of zootonic âspecies jumpâ transfers over time that create short-lived human chains to roll the evolutionary dice enough times to get a pandemic-level pathogen. With an accidental release scenario, it only gets one shot.