Unwarranted Exclusion of Intermediate Lineage A-B SARS-CoV-2 Genomes Is Inconsistent with the Two-Spillover Hypothesis of the Origin of COVID-19

Pekar et al. (2022) propose that SARS-CoV-2 was a zoonotic spillover that first infected humans in the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China. They propose that there were two separate spillovers of the closely related lineages A and lineage B in a short period of time. The two lineages are different...

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Main Authors: Steven E. Massey, Adrian Jones, Daoyu Zhang, Yuri Deigin, Steven C. Quay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-03-01
Series:Microbiology Research
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2036-7481/14/1/33