Abstract:Questions about the origins of COVID-19 are of more than academic interest. For the moment, the best explanation for the origins of COVID-19 seems to be that the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where scientists were engaged in creating novel SARS-like chimeras and potentially supercharging their transmissibility and pathogenicity.
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