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Bet he was alluding to this bullshit Cambridge study.
>>8829510 pb
>https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/coronavirus-began-months-earlier-not-21882132
"The virus may have mutated into its final 'human-efficient' form months ago, but stayed inside a bat or other animal or even human for several months without infecting other individuals," University of Cambridge geneticist Peter Forster said on Thursday.
"Then, it started infecting and spreading among humans between September 13 and December 7, generating the network we present in [the journal] Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [PNAS]."
Researchers analysed strains of the virus using a phylogenetic network – an algorithm that can map the global movement of organisms through the mutation of their genes.
He and colleagues from several institutes analysed more than 1,000 full genome sequences of the virus.
By counting the various mutations of the virus, they were able to get closer to figuring out when the first human was infected by a strain closest to a virus spread among bats.
They found hundreds of mutations, indicating that the virus may have been spreading quietly in host animals for years before finally infecting humans.
"If I am pressed for an answer, I would say the original spread started more likely in southern China than in Wuhan," Mr Forster said.