MEDIA please note: When it becomes more publicly known that SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 have the same spike protein, REMEMBER THAT YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST. Quite the LARP, no?
You don't need recombination in nature when you're doing genetic engineering yourself in the lab.
No need to infect bats. You could just walk around the area with a device that releases it as an aerosol. And anyone could have done that, not just the Chinese.
Except that the binding affinity is the same, which it wouldn't be if they had modified it from SARS-CoV.
Thought of that. Then there is the matter of putting CoV patients into New York nursing homes. The deaths have been horrific in that setting.
Or even just keto :)
That's a big part of the reason why Q is here - to break that spell and unite us.