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Here's how scientists know the coronavirus came from bats and wasn't made in a lab

Here's how scientists know the coronavirus came from bats and wasn't made in a lab

One of the conspiracy theories that have plagued attempts to keep people informed during the pandemic is the idea that the coronavirus was created in a laboratory. How exactly do we know that this virus, SARS-CoV-2, has a “zoonotic” animal origin and not an artificial one? An estimated 60% of known infectious diseases and 75% of all new, emerging, or re-emerging diseases in humans have animal origins.