,” provides a convenient update on the animal origins of SARS-CoV-2. Bats are still the only suspect when it comes to the primary reservoir of the virus, and further work has narrowed things down to a bat family, Rhinolophus — the horseshoe bats, who had also brewed up the original SARS virus among themselves before it leapt to humans through civet cats.
The suspicion that there was an intermediate species in the case of SARS-2 is strong, for a few reasons, which the authors of the “Crowned Killer” paper enumerate. There are the examples of classic SARS, and of MERS, which crossed from bat to human through camels. The COVID-19 outbreak began during the hibernation season for bats in the Wuhan area, and there were no vendors of bats at the notorious Hunan “wet market.
But the search for the accessory to the crime remains incomplete. The pangolin question has geneticists divided: some find them a promising suspect, some think they’re impossible. Study of codons in SARS-CoV-2 initially pointed to snakes as a host, but they don’t seem to have the right flavour of ACE2; the same goes for turtles. Minks are on the list because in farm settings they have been shown to not only get COVID-19, but to pass it onto humans.
In other words, the hunt for the intermediate species — if there is one — continues with no obvious solution yet in sight. It is, of course, astonishing that this area of research has gotten as far as it has amidst a storm of death and ruin. The natural history of SARS-CoV-2, once worked out, probably won’t tell us anything that unlocks a new treatment for COVID-19.
Maybe they haven't found any cases in animals yet because they're so focused on person-animal, animal-animal transmission. This virus seems more prone to spreading from lab to lab, due to 'critters' like these two.
The CCP and the WHO. Figured it out for you 🙄
CHYNA
I didn't know that Wuhan Labs was a critter.
I think the critter walks on 2 legs and speaks Chinese.
Found the dirty critter!
It's called the Chinese.
Right here
Found him!
colbycosh have you seen the South Park pandemic special? Long story short, it's plausible patient zero was exposed to both bats and pangolins.
We’ve all seen the South Park pandemic special. We know it was a pangolin that Randy fucked with Mickey Mouse. Case closed.
That critter would be CCPChina
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