The nine facts about the origin of SARS-CoV-2 that everyone needs to know are as follows: 1) SARS-CoV-2 is related to bat SARS-like coronaviruses from southern China and northern Laos. 2) SARS-CoV-2 entered humans in or near Wuhan in August-November 2019.
@R_H_Ebright Don't leave out options that might challenge your own logic. You still need to address the possibility that the thriving wildlife market in Wuhan was the source for the original infection.
@itsmeagain4126 A superspreader event occurred in mid-December 2019 at Huanan Seafood Market. That superspreader event cannot, even in principle, explain the entry of SARS-CoV-2 into humans in August-November 2019. (For your reference, December 2019 occurred after August-November 2019.)
@R_H_Ebright @itsmeagain4126 Can you expand on this, I'm not following. I thought the reason to study the market was to show that the earliest cases *in Wuhan* originated there and thus rule out the WIV as a likely source for the Wuhan cases. Am I missing something?
@SashaGusevPosts @itsmeagain4126 Yes, But this works only if one ignores the fact tha August-November 2018 preceded mid-December 2019.
@R_H_Ebright @itsmeagain4126 I'm still not following the logic. If the virus gets to Wuhan through a super-spreader event in the wet market, why does it matter that it first crossed over to humans 1-2 months earlier? The market as Wuhan origin makes the WIV a much less likely source.
@SashaGusevPosts @itsmeagain4126 *August-November 2019