• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      A natural zoonotic path does not (yet) exist. It is correct to say none has been found.

      the Huanan Market in Wuhan was the early and main epicentre of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection.

      There you are.

      there is no indication that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had studied viruses similar to SARS‐CoV‐2 or artificially modified coronaviruses before the COVID‐19 pandemic

      This part of the paper is out of date. We now know there was a subaward to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, to understand how bat coronaviruses have the potential to become transmissible to the human population.