'Did they really get sick, and if so, what did they get sick with?'
An 'overwhelming likelihood' that virus jumped naturally from an animal
After their investigation, the WHO team determined that the coronavirus "most likely" jumped from bats to people via an intermediary animal at a wildlife farm in southeastern China. This kind of spillover has been the leading theory throughout the pandemic, primarily because 75% of new infectious diseases come to us from animals.
"I have always felt that the overwhelming likelihood - given the experience we have had with SARS, MERS, Ebola, HIV, bird flu, the swine flu pandemic of 2009 - was that the virus jumped species," Fauci told the Financial Times. Plus, the coronavirus' genetic code is very similar to that of other coronaviruses found circulating in bats. Bats are common virus reservoirs;"It happens all the time," Fauci said on "Morning Joe." "That's the reason we feel that it's the most likely, but since we haven't proven that, you got to keep an open mind."Scientists have yet to find the intermediary species - or the bat population - that passed the coronavirus to people.
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