COVID-19 Emerged at Wuhan Wet Market, Other Scenarios Unlikely

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and scientists have searched for the origins of the virus. After it emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019, a lot of scrutiny was placed on a viral research center located there, which has done many studies on bat viruses, including SARS-CoV. But the wet markets of the city, one in particular at the epicenter of the first cases, seemed to be a more plausible explanation. This is a scenario that has played out many times before, as viruses can easily evolve to impact new species. It’s estimated that about 70 percent…