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What are the different theories about the origin of coronavirus?

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M. Porter

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M. Porter, Senior Executive, Master of Art, San Jose

Answered Aug 13, 2020

Who, what, where, when, and how are the questions regarding the coronavirus? This virus originates from a large family of different viruses, encompassing the common cold up to and including COVID-19. It is said that it all commenced with animals, was first detected in Wuhan, China, and was supposedly propagated through the sale of live killed animals in the wet markets.

The meats sold there can be of the specialty variety, and during the process of slaughtering, the virus travels from one animal to another and mutates. The mutation can, at times, include passing to human recipients.

Between the beginning and now, there has been SARS-CoV-2 (China) and MERS (Middle East). Some reports state that this originated with bats, and others believe pangolins are the culprit.

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Charlie Rogers

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Charlie Rogers, Manager, Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS), Lexington, Kentucky

Answered May 17, 2020

The coronavirus is so new and widespread that is has caused a number of theories to be created as to why it is now a pandemic that all nations are facing. One theory is that the virus was created in a lab. At the moment, the Chinese and the American governments are pointing blame at each other as to who created the virus, but the one thing that has not changed is that the first known case of the virus was in China.

This leads to the second theory, where the virus originated from an animal market in Wuhan and started because the meat was not properly cleaned.

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C. Adlai, Software Developer, B.E (Bachelor of Engineering), California, USA

Answered May 15, 2020

There have been different theories about the origin of Coronavirus. The blame between China and the United States of America on the origin of the Coronavirus pandemic. This has caused a lot of theories, some of which contain an atom of truth and others which are false.

It was said that the virus outbreak started in December 2019 in a wet market in Wuhan, which is in the Chinese city where the cases were first reported.

Two labs in Wuhan had a long-running experiment with the bat on Coronavirus helped scientists quickly identify the Coronavirus is most likely to come from nocturnal mammals.

Some evidence also made available stated that the virus was engineered, and also some evidence indicated that there was the accidental escape of some wild samples because of poor laboratory safety practices.

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M. Klose

M. Klose

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M. Klose, Content Writer, Oakland

Answered May 12, 2020

There are different theories about the start of Coronavirus. The main theory that people believe in is that this started because a person from Wuhan ate a bat that was infected with the disease. The virus was not killed in the process of cooking the bat, so the person who ate it also became infected.

Another theory is that this was started by a group of researchers who wanted to try if they would be able to create a virus that will have the ability to mutate. Some also say that this may have started out in the United States and this explains why the government is not doing all of the things that they can in order to stop the spread of the virus.

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I. Woods

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Answered May 11, 2020

The first theory about the origin of the COVID 19 is that there was this man in Wuhan who decided that it will be fun to eat bat soup. The bat that was served to the man was infected, so the man also got infected and spread the disease to all the people that he met and all of the surfaces that he touched.

Another theory is that a group of people planned to release the virus in order to make China a super country. There is another theory that is going around wherein people from the US wanted to make this pandemic happen in order to eliminate a few people and show off that despite everything that is happening, they can survive.

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H. Martin

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H. Martin, Content Writer, Charlotte

Answered May 05, 2020

There are, of course, many different rumors concerning the origin of the virus. Scientists are wagging their finger at those unsubstantiated claims made by conspiracy theorists that this disease was biologically engineered as a weapon of mass destruction, sent to destroy our country and all the other countries that are vulnerable.

The most likely reason that this virus hit can be traced back to a wet market in Wuhan, China. It is believed that a bat or some other infected animal, maybe a pangolin infected the first human to contract the virus.

The scientists say that the claims that the Chinese or American government purposely set out to spread this virus are outrageous and cannot be proven. Some scientists even believe that the theory of the virus being produced from the grossly unsanitary and often barbaric slaughters at a wet market is not true either.

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