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by rook166 1876 days ago
I think that's probably at least somewhat true, although from the article it seems like the argument against that selection bias is that a) COVID-19 seems to be substantially more "tuned" than its cousins SARS and MERS, and b) there is as-yet no strong evidence of pre-pandemic strains of a COVID-19 progenitor (either in humans or animals).