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From a pathology standpoint, it is ‘virtually impossible’ for a coronavirus derived from bats and mice to “mutate” and give itself the ability to attach to ACE-2 receptors found in human bronchial cells. This capability can only be achieved through gain of function experiments. (twitter.com)
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– LostViking1985 3 points ago +3 / -0

It is false that a virus can't mutate on its own to transmit from animals to humans, it happens. Swine flu, avian flu, etc. The second idea in that tweet, which isn't mutually exclusive with this fact, is that the virus was engineered. It could have been.

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