Pair of new studies point to natural COVID-19 origin

Answering the question of whether the disease spilt over naturally from animals to humans, or was the result of a lab accident, is viewed as vital to averting the next pandemic and saving millions of lives.

Both were previously posted as"preprints" but have now been vetted by scientific peer review and appear in a prestigious journal. Though the previous investigation had centred on the live animal market, researchers wanted more evidence to determine it was really the progenitor of the outbreak, as opposed to an amplifier.

Further, these cases clustered tightly around the market -- and some early patients with no recent history of visiting the market lived very close to it. "This tells us the virus was not circulating cryptically," Worobey said in a statement."It really originated at that market and spread out from there."Two lineages, A and B, marked the early pandemic.

"Otherwise, lineage A would have had to have been evolving in slow motion compared to the lineage B virus, which just doesn't make biological sense," said Worobey.

Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)

That lab over there... Is that the building they used to manufacture it?

It's just a matter of time before they say it originates from Africa🙄

😂 😂 😂 Natural? Okay

Lmao

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