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by runawaybottle 2285 days ago
How many animals would it take to get the exact kind of mutation needed to make something like the coronavirus? It feels like you’d need thousands in a lab, right?
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No idea.

But if you had animals with weakened immune systems and eight years or more of testing (since SARS), then it seems you have enough time for some mutations to happen.