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Did a review of virus samples collected from a Chinese mine cause the coronavirus pandemic?
This research examines the activity at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in late 2019, when samples from a mineshaft associated with a suspected SARS outbreak were being reviewed. It proposes that spillover occurred during this review of samples including of a virus (BtCoV/4991) only 1% different to SARS-CoV-2 in its RdRp.
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** This post was originally published on January 13, 2021 **