You have seen, where are you on the origins of this virus? well, most likely it is of zoonotic origin, most likley bats and i think we may need to think about an intermediary animal to explain how it actually got into people. and what evidence are you basing that on? first of all, the genetic evidence. there is one very close relative of it, ratg13. ratg13 was found in horse—shoe bats in china's southern yunnan province back in 2013 after six miners got sick. three of them died. researchers studied and officially identified the virus. it is a 96.2% match with sars—cov—2, and even closer ...