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> I mean guys, it supposedly started next to a lab that studies the virus and they've yet to find the original bat population spreading it.

It often takes years or even decades to find the original animal source of viruses. Sometimes it is never found, such as with ebola.



For example the origin of the 2002 SARS out break was only established in 2017/2018 - so 16 years after the fact.




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