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Contrary to prevailing belief, an evolutionary analysis finds no evidence that most viruses with epidemic or pandemic potential that jumped from animals to people were shaped by selection in a lab or prolonged evolution in an intermediate host—challenging claims that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was engineered in a lab.

#COVID #pandemic #virology https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/recent-pandemic-viruses-including-sar-cov-2-spread-directly-people-without-adaptation