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61. Matt Ridley - The Rational Optimist

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The Search for the Origin of Cove 19

There are two possibilities that we think are strong possibilities. That it came through the food chain in that sea food market in wohan, where there a concentration of early cases. It could also have come through the wuhan institute of varology and other research labs in china. This is the main place on the planet to go and study sars like coronivaruses from bats. University of north carolina is the other place in the world that's like that but they don't have those kind of bats in north america. So it's something of a huge coincidence that this varus should erupt into the humans pecies in the one city in the world who studies these kinds

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