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COVID-19, From Bats to Humans: Examining the Wuhan Connection
April 17, 2020--A great and tragic mystery of 2020 is the origin of the COVID-19 virus that is sweeping the world with sickness and death. Some researchers point to a seafood market in Wuhan. Others say it could have started in a Chinese lab in Wuhan. Most certainly, it came from bats. But how did it jump to humans?
From Wuhan to the
World
To date, the COVID-19 virus that has infected over 2 million
people worldwide and killed 149,000 people.
Of the first 309 confirmed cases in China, 270 cases were
confirmed in Wuhan. Of the first 41 patients hospitalized in Wuhan with the
virus, 27 of them, 66 percent, had a connection to a food and wild animal
market.
Wholesale Food Market
As early as December 2019, reports from China pointed to the
connection to the Huanan Seafood Wholes...