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Which origin theory of the Coronavirus do you believe?
Please see the scientific summary link below for the detailed theories posited.
Basic four theories to discuss:Team member Vladimir Dedkov, an epidemiologist and deputy director of research at the St. Petersburg Pasteur Institute in Russia, summarized the four main leads first laid out at a marathon news conference in China last month about the suspected origins of the first infection in humans. They were, in order of likelihood: from a bat through an intermediary animal; straight from a bat; via contaminated frozen food products; from a leak from a laboratory like the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-origin-1-report-4-theories-who-478237854902672ac53ab6d9dbfe59ec
Which of them makes sense to you personally?
Do you have a theory on how it got transferred to humans?
Do you think conspiracy theorists will believe the science?
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Now, 21 researchers – all seeking to understand how a virus that originated in bats transferred into humans – aim to “set the record straight” by publishing their summary of the scientific evidence about the pandemic’s beginning.
“It’s not true that we don’t know where it came from – we just don’t know how it got into humans,” says Glasgow University virologist Prof David Robertson.
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