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More than a year after Covid-19 touched off the worst pandemic in more than a century, scientists have yet to determine its origins. The closest related viruses to SARS-CoV-2 were found in bats over 1,000 miles from the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the disease erupted in late 2019. Initially, cases were tied to a fresh food market and possibly the wildlife sold there. An investigation in early 2021 has highlighted the possibility that they acted as a vector, transferring the virus from b
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A year ago, the Director General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, delivered the message that would divide time:
“WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction. We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic.”
What followed was a call to action to all.
“We have rung the alarm bell loud and clear.” And instantly, the redundant “global pandemic” ricocheted across the media, reverberating still.
The name of the enemy had changed quickly as 2020 began, from the “Wuhan coronavirus” to “2019 novel coronavirus” shortened to “2019-nCoV,” and finally to SARS-CoV-2, acknowledging similarity to SARS, circa 2003-2004.
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