Recombinant SARS Cov viruses with certain features of SARS Cov-2 have been engineered in a lab
by Island girl So here’s a timeline: In this paper from 2013, Dr. Peter Daszak, Dr. Shi and colleagues isolate and characterize a SARS-like coronavirus from Chinese horseshoe bats from a cave in Yunnan province (some distance from Wuhan). They discover that, like the epidemic strain SARS-Cov-1 (but unlike other SARS-like coronaviruses), the spike protein of … Read more