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Coronapod: COVID's origins and the 'lab leak' theory

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Is This an Emerging Infection?

Scientists in China have found no evidence of a live animal market being the source of sars cove two virus. But they identified ten stalls that sell wild or farmed animals, things like rabbits and badgers which are susceptible to infection. The first case was reported on december eighth, 20 nineteent - when an office worker in wuhan complained of having these coved like symptoms. They tested 67 people for sars cove two antibodies, but they didn't find any antibodies in these people. Scientists also went to hospitals, and they found forty 500 patient samples, and they tested all those samples for the sars cove 2 virus. And again, they didn't come up with anything

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