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Possible Origins of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lab Leak or Zoonotic Transmission?
Unlocking the Secrets to the Source of the COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak
Three years have passed since the COVID-19 pandemic posed a tremendous global challenge to society and medicine. Knowing its origin and if it can happen again is paramount.
Significant challenges arose when humanity experienced a devastating new viral infection like SARS-CoV-2.
How should individuals and societies respond to a new situation like this?
I will examine the diverse hypotheses regarding the origin of SARS-CoV-2 and explore their implications for our understanding of the pandemic. I will also discuss current evidence and its implications for future research.
Four hypotheses of how the pandemic originated:
One of the biggest unknowns refers to the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 29 virus, how the infection began, and how it was transmitted efficiently between humans to result in such a powerful pandemic.
The question seems easy to answer. However, the origin of SARS-CoV-2 has been the subject of substantial debate mainly because there needs to be accessible to relevant data.
