"Horizontal Gene Transfer" Between BANAL Bat Covs & Pango Covs in 2018 in a wildlife smuggler's cave between Laos & Wuhan? More likely at a laboratory in Wuhan or elsewhere? If we consider the prior Institute Pasteur/US Navy bat & bat tick sampling in that area of Laos..
@BillyBostickson But then what? It escaped from the lab and infected Pangolins in the "wild"? (I actually doubt wild pangolins have many viruses, but ones in captivity probably do).
@BillyBostickson I mean some pCoV that got the RBD from a bat CoV.
@gadboit That specific question is dificult to investigate without access to lab notebooks, confesssions, or a forensic investigtaion, as proposed here: researchgate.net/publication/35… 1st step is to prove that there was indeed horizontal gene transfer between BANAL Covs &Pangolin Covs in 2018.